Yuya Wang

Challenge! is the 1969 debut album by Japanese psychedelic rock band Yuya Uchida & The Flowers. The Flowers would become Flower Travelling Band. This is from the first compact disc pressing released in 1991 by Columbia.

Live performances of the laureates of the 2017 first Queen Elisabeth Cello Competition. This album contains orchestral performances of the final with the Brussels Philharmonic, conducted by Stéphane Denève, as well as Haydn’s Cello concertos of the semi-final session with the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie conducted by Frank Braley. Chamber music performances during the first round and the semi-final session can also be heard, solo or with piano / cello accompaniment. The 2017 Queen Elisabeth Cello Competition was won by the French cellist Victor Julien-Laferrière, the Japanese Yuya Okamoto was ranked 2nd and the Columbian Santiago Cañón-Valencia 3rd; they are followed in the ranking by Aurélien Pascal (France, 4th Prize), Ivan Karizna (Belarus, 5th Prize) and Brannon Cho (USA, 6th Prize). The 6 other laureates, as well as 3 semi-finalists, are completing the program of this album.

Arrivati al tramonto della vita gli anziani del Villaggio sono chiamati a un ultimo sacrificio per la comunità, l’ascensione: si addentrano nel bosco innevato e non fanno ritorno, destinati a morire di stenti e di freddo per non essere di peso ai giovani. Quando per la settantenne Kayu Sato arriva il momento di lasciare il Villaggio e la vita, accetta senza esitazione il suo destino, ma sulla montagna non troverà la morte, troverà Dendera: una comunità di donne che hanno rifiutato l’antica tradizione e hanno fondato una società autonoma tra i boschi. Tra una spietata lotta per la vita, la costante ricerca di risorse per sopravvivere al rigido e letale inverno e i giochi di potere portati avanti da anziane indurite dal tempo, Kayu cerca faticosamente di trovare il suo posto..

Jian Wang is a well-known cellist. His family was musical. He began studying cello with his father at the age of four, and at nine was enrolled in Shanghai Conservatory. He achieved international fame when American violinist Isaac Stern traveled in China. Stern was accompanied by a documentary film-maker. His film, called From Mao to Mozart, documented especially Stern's interaction with Chinese musicians and music students. Among them was the ten-year-old cellist, who exhibited remarkable maturity and security in his playing.

Jian Wang is a well-known cellist. His family was musical. He began studying cello with his father at the age of four, and at nine was enrolled in Shanghai Conservatory. He achieved international fame when American violinist Isaac Stern traveled in China. Stern was accompanied by a documentary film-maker. His film, called From Mao to Mozart, documented especially Stern's interaction with Chinese musicians and music students. Among them was the ten-year-old cellist, who exhibited remarkable maturity and security in his playing.

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.