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Following her San Francisco recital début The San Francisco
Chronicle wrote “The arrival of Chinese-born pianist Yuja
Wang on the musical scene is an exhilarating and unnerving
development. To listen to her in action is to re-examine
whatever assumptions you may have had about how well
the piano can actually be played.” In Rimsky-Korsakov’s
evocation of One Thousand and One Nights, his richly melodic
music takes flight on a magic carpet of colourfully woven
orchestration, depicting the Persian queen’s spellbinding
story-telling which transports her listeners to the exotic lands
of the imagination. |
