Yuja Wang

To mark the occasion of Rachmaninoff's 150th Birthday, Deutsche Grammophon releases Yuja Wang's most ambitious project to date! In February 2023 at Walt Disney Hall, Classical superstar Yuja Wang joined forces with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic for a sold-out and critically acclaimed Rachmaninoff residency, captured as audio and video by Deutsche Grammophon.

As part of this year’s Rachmaninoff 150 celebrations, Yuja Wang joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic and its Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel over two consecutive weekends in February to perform all four of the composer’s piano concertos and the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

"Yuja Wang's second CD recital for Deutsche Grammophon also takes your breath away with the fantastic mixture of almost limitless manual dexterity and harmonious musicality.​

Yuja Wang here gives characteristically dynamic and expressive performances of Shostakovich's contrasting 'Piano Concertos', written 24 years apart, with the BSO's principal trumpet Thomas Rolfs playing the obbligato trumpet part in the first. The new album also features 6 solo piano pieces from Shostakovich's '24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 & Op. 34'.

Yuja Wang here gives characteristically dynamic and expressive performances of Shostakovich's contrasting 'Piano Concertos', written 24 years apart, with the BSO's principal trumpet Thomas Rolfs playing the obbligato trumpet part in the first. The new album also features 6 solo piano pieces from Shostakovich's '24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 & Op. 34'.

Yuja Wang here gives characteristically dynamic and expressive performances of Shostakovich's contrasting 'Piano Concertos', written 24 years apart, with the BSO's principal trumpet Thomas Rolfs playing the obbligato trumpet part in the first. The new album also features 6 solo piano pieces from Shostakovich's '24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 & Op. 34'.

Yuja Wang here gives characteristically dynamic and expressive performances of Shostakovich's contrasting 'Piano Concertos', written 24 years apart, with the BSO's principal trumpet Thomas Rolfs playing the obbligato trumpet part in the first. The new album also features 6 solo piano pieces from Shostakovich's '24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 & Op. 34'.

Austrian clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer has joined forces with Chinese pianist Yuja Wang to record an album of works by composers of the Romantic era. Blue Hour, set for release on March 8 by Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company, features some of the jewels of the repertoire including Brahms’s Intermezzo in A major, Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words – arranged for clarinet and piano by Ottensamer – and Weber’s virtuosic Grand Duo concertant. The album reveals Ottensamer to be not just a sensitive and responsive chamber partner, but also a brilliant soloist, as he gives a dazzling performance of Weber’s First Clarinet Concerto, recorded with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Mariss Jansons.

Yuja Wang is the brilliant soloist in a piano concerto by a longtime friend of hers: Teddy Abrams. The music director of the Louisville Orchestra, which he conducts here, describes his virtuosic piece as "an opportunity for the piano to guide us through what I think is one of the strengths of American culture, its plurality, its interconnectedness." Also written for Yuja Wang, the solo piano work "You Come Here Often?" is by another great friend of hers, Michael Tilson Thomas.