Yuja Wang is known for her daring confidence and skill at the piano and for her adventurous taste in clothes, but at a recent concert in San Francisco, she took a different kind of risk: playing with a duet partner. The remarkable young Chinese pianist was in town to solo with the orchestra. And, as a fun way to open the concert, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas came out with her at the beginning of the evening. They shared a piano bench to play the Sonata for Piano Four Hands, by Francis Poulenc.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Francis Poulenc: Coda, from Villageoises (The Villagers) Piano Pieces for Children
Olivier Cazal, piano
Modest Mussorgsky: Prelude to Khovanshchina
The Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Emmanuel Krivine, conductor
Philharmonie, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Igor Stravinsky: Eight Instrumental Miniatures for Fifteen Players
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Alexander Scriabin: Six Preludes, Op. 13
Ivan Moshchuk, piano
Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Benjamin Britten: Fugue in E-flat, Op. 81, No. 4
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Stefan Asbury, conductor
Ordway Center, St. Paul
Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Piano Four Hands
Yuja Wang and Michael Tilson Thomas, piano
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco
Hour 2
David Conte: Charm Me Asleep
Chanticleer
Tarquinio Merula: Ballo detto Eccardo and Ciaccona, from Canzoni ovvero Sonate Concertat, Libro III
Quicksilver
Boston Early Music Festival, Boston
Reynaldo Hahn: To Chloris
Albrecht Mayer, oboe, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Erika Lloyd: Cells Planets
Chanticleer
The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Hector Berlioz: Excerpts from Les Troyens (The Trojans)
The Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Christian Zacharias, conductor
Metropole Hall, Lausanne, Switzerland
Robert Schumann: Arabesque in C, Op. 18
Christian Zacharias, piano
Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival, Warsaw, Poland
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