![]() ![]() You’ve recorded a lot of Rachmaninoff, and your recording of the Second Piano Concerto got my attention, because it seemed to breathe new life into that piece. It’s imbued in the brain and it’s nice to bring that back. I remember the place I remember the smell I remember who I was with. I can’t describe what exactly it was, I just wanted to listen to it over and over.Įverything! For lots of music, I remember the first time I heard it. And after that, Furtwängler conducting Beethoven Symphonies. The Romantic feelings…I remember I listened to it over and over again, and then I had the Chopin Études by Pollini and Chopin Nocturnes by Rubinstein - so lots of Romantic stuff. I don’t know if it’s the music or feelings the music invokes. With Swan Lake as your introduction to classical music, did that start a love of the Russian Romantics for you? His other job is people give him tapes and he writes it all down as a score, like transcriptions. Oh he’s like a Nazi: rhythm-wise, note-wise, I have to be super clean. ![]() ‘Adamant about rhythms.’ He wanted you to get the correct rhythms or he was telling you not to rush? So I was always scared if he was around, but it was okay if my mom was around. I like music and the piano was like a toy - I would just play around. But I loved music, so she would bring me to the rehearsals of Swan Lake and other stuff. And my mom actually wanted me to be a dancer, but I’m not very flexible or disciplined - so I failed at that. The piano was their wedding gift, and it was kind of sitting there at home. Your father was a percussionist your mother was a dancer. “I think it was this one,” she said, landing briefly on Chopin’s Prelude in E minor, Op. Afterward, shooting B-roll for the video of the interview (watch it here), Wang effortlessly blitzed and blazed through forty minutes of solo and concerto repertoire, stream-of-consciousness style. Wang spoke to Listen in 2013 at Steinway Hall. Wang has risen to prominence on Russian Romanticism and is a regular in recital and as a soloist at America’s - and the world’s - great halls. Yuja Wang Talks About Rhythm, Approach, Avoiding Beethoven and Mozart, Russians Who Don’t Give Back, Rihanna, Petrouchka, Chopin and Music As People.īORN IN BEIJING, Yuja Wang began playing piano at age six and went on to study at Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music, Calgary’s Mount Royal University and Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music. Listen Magazine FEATURE I Have That Blood ![]()
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