Yuja Wang plays Ligeti, Georg Friedrich Haas and 50 pianos, Christopher O'Riley and Bach, Aaron Diehl or Craig Taborn for free, Gilmore winners including Sullivan Fortner, Dave Burrell at the library
The Rautavaara first concerto is amazing - one of the pieces that made my jaw drop from its opening bars. I really hope Yuja can bring it into the spotlight!
I came down from Vermont to attend 11,000 Strings. I was sad when it premiered in Europe and thought I'd missed my chance, so when I saw it would be in NYC I had to go. Quite an experience, and one I've found difficult to describe. I got to work with Haas for a few weeks a couple years ago at a festival in Austria, I think one of our best still-living composers.
Christian Tetzlaff played the Ligeti violin concerto with SFS ten or more years ago and it was spectacular. Wang is hugely popular here and given the right conductor....maybe we'll get to hear the Ligeti piano concerto.
The Rautavaara first concerto is amazing - one of the pieces that made my jaw drop from its opening bars. I really hope Yuja can bring it into the spotlight!
Yes my feeling exactly!
God bless for TT434 and hipping me up to Grigory Sokolov. Infinite beauty in his Beethoven/Brahms program tonight. Cheers from Stockholm.
Amazing! So glad to hear this
The Rautavaara videos on the YouTube channel, The Ultimate Classical Music Guide by Dave Hurwitz, offer a good introduction to Rautavaara.
I came down from Vermont to attend 11,000 Strings. I was sad when it premiered in Europe and thought I'd missed my chance, so when I saw it would be in NYC I had to go. Quite an experience, and one I've found difficult to describe. I got to work with Haas for a few weeks a couple years ago at a festival in Austria, I think one of our best still-living composers.
yes, agree about Haas's stature. And I couldn't really describe 11000 Strings either, as is clear from my comments above!
Yuja Wang can, I think, sell out a concert no matter what she plays. It is fantastic that she's playing the Ligeti!
Yes indeed
Christian Tetzlaff played the Ligeti violin concerto with SFS ten or more years ago and it was spectacular. Wang is hugely popular here and given the right conductor....maybe we'll get to hear the Ligeti piano concerto.