Poster Yuja Wang at Carnegie Hall
Yuja Wang played a demanding program at Carnegie Hall, topped by four encores.
Ebru Yildiz/for NPR
Performance Today®

Pianist Yuja Wang

Pianist Yuja Wang has had a major-label recording contract for 8 years. She is known for playing virtuosic pieces by the likes of Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Liszt... and yet, she feels intimidated about playing music by Mozart. On Thursday's Performance Today, hear Yuja Wang perform a Mozart piano concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and conductor Lionel Bringuier.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Antonio Vivaldi: Recorder Concerto in G Major, Op. 10, No. 4, RV 435 (excerpts)
Il Giardino Armonico
Vivaldi: Concerti di Camera Vol. 1
Teldec 73267

Lalo Schifrin: Tango del Atardecer
Viva Tango
Rockport Music, Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, MA

Jean Sibelius: String Quartet in D minor, Op. 56 "Voces intimae"
Meccore String Quartet: Wojiech Koprowski, violin; Jaroslaw Nadrzycki, violin; Michal Bryla, viola; Karol Marianowski, cello
Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, FL

Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Op. 8, L'inverno "Winter"
New York Philharmonic; Frank Huang, conductor
David Geffen Hall, New York, NY
**Classical Live - available on Google Play**

Hour 2

Alexander Scriabin: Etude in G sharp minor, Op. 8 No. 9
Yuja Wang, piano
Yuja Wang: Fantasia
DG 16606

Joseph Achron: Hebrew Melody, Op. 33
Itamar Zorman, violin; Kwan Yi, piano
Union College Concert Series, Union College - Memorial Chapel, Schenectady, NY

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9, K. 271
Yuja Wang, piano; Los Angeles Philharmonic; Lionel Bringuier, conductor
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA

Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 BWV 1009: Movement 4 (encore)
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
from a concert with the Minnesota Orchestra, Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN

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