Yuja Wang
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Shostakovich: The Piano Concertos; Solo Works
RecommendedYuja Wang (piano), Thomas Rolfs (trumpet), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
In Yuja Wang’s hands the music comes across as delightfully playful, quick to register variety. Hardly any extended passage passes by without her lighting upon quicksilver changes of colour... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2025, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 68th Awards (2026), Nominated - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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The New York Times, Best Classical Music Albums of 2025
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The outer movements are so deliciously light, like the most perfect soufflé, executed with disarming insouciance by pianist and orchestra alike...You could not wish for a more atmospheric account... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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This is an achievement on a pretty spectacular new level, and the range of musical sensibility she demonstrates here is vast...her rhythmic sense [in the Ligeti] keeps the music aloft and totally... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2024, Insturmental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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A supremely intelligent, deeply feeling artist of the first order. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Winner - Instrumental
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie
RecommendedYuja Wang (piano), Cécile Lartigau (ondesmartenot), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
Whether adding the most delicate filigree to the symphony’s more reflective movements, like the sixth, Jardín du Sommeil d’ Amour, providing virtuoso punctuation to the eighth, Développement... —
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Grammy Awards, 68th Awards (2026), Nominated - Best Orchestral Performance
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Rachmaninoff: the Piano Concertos & Paganini Rhapsody
Yuja Wang (piano), Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel
Wang has recorded three of the works before...But however dazzling those performances are technically, she is a much more mature performer nowadays. While the flashy exuberance of the First... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Concerto
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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos & Paganini Rhapsody
Yuja Wang (piano), Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel
Rachmaninov’s First Piano Concerto opens in thundering style, before a glittering pianistic masterclass in high-speed touch from Wang, alternating between virtuosic shimmering and emotive depth.... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Concerto
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John Adams: Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?
RecommendedYuja Wang (piano), Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel
The solo part – written especially for Wang – it’s the pianist as perfectly as her infamous bodycon dresses. Her flawless technique is ideally suited to the frequent high-octane, galloping passages…Packed... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2020
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2020, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Winner - Concerto
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Both play [the Franck] with poetry and warmth but can turn solid where coolly patrician tone is needed, and the air only really clears in time for the floating, sweet lyricism of the finale.... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year (Capuçon)
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Yuja Wang (piano)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
She makes us hear this hoariest of Romantic war-horses afresh, as if with cleaned ears: the work emerges as almost classical, Mozartian even, in its poise and architecture. There isn't an iota... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Concerto
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