Yuja Wang: piano
Staatskapelle Dresden
Myung-Whun Chung: conductor
Sergey Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor (41 mins)
INTERVAL Johannes Brahms: Symphony No 2 in D major (43 mins)
Explosively virtuosic and a thrilling live performer, Yuja Wang is the soloist in Rachmaninov’s emotionally expansive and technically demanding Third Piano Concerto – one of the most challenging in the repertoire.
She joins conductor Myung-Whun Chung and the Staatskapelle Dresden – the second of this week’s visiting European orchestras – for a concert that also includes Brahms’s genial Symphony No. 2, whose freshness and spontaneity have drawn comparisons with Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Symphony.
