It will be his second appearance on the CBS flagship in 20 years.

This site shows his previous appearance, the one where he talks about his relationship with critics.

Watch this week’s interview here.

A decade ago when she burst onto the scene, Yuja Wang was playing tough stuff that was not calculated to please an audience.

Now she has found an audience by other means, she’s going back to the tough stuff.

Look at this upcoming LA concert: Prokofiev and Scriabin sonatas, mingled with a little light Rachmaninov and Ligeti.

 

Yuja Wang, returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall, Tuesday, May 8, at 8PM, in a recital program of works by late Romantic-era and 20th-century composers:
 
RACHMANINOFF Prelude in D major, Op. 23, No. 4
RACHMANINOFF Etude-tableau in B minor, Op 39, No. 4
RACHMANINOFF Prelude in E minor, Op. 32, No. 4
RACHMANINOFF Prelude in B minor, Op. 32, No. 10
RACHMANINOFF Prelude in G minor, Op. 23, No. 5
RACHMANINOFF Etude-tableau in E-flat minor, Op. 39, No. 5
SCRIABIN Piano Sonata No. 10
LIGETI Etude No. 3
LIGETI Etude No. 9
LIGETI Etude No. 1
PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No. 8 in B-flat major, Op. 84
 
The performance is part of the LA Phil’s 2017/18 Colburn Celebrity Recitals.

Natalia Popovich was chosen in 1981 by Yury Temirkanov to head the chorus of the Kirov (now Mariinsky) Theatre in what was then Leningrad.

After seven years she moved to Moscow, first as chorus chief at the Stanislavsky Theatre, then at the Novaya Opera.

Natalia died at the weekend, aged 73.

A company called Band Management Universal has apparently shut down after a deluge of complaints.

The company is said to have charged musicians for services it never delivered and to have engaged in abuse campaigns against those who complained.

The MU’s Horace Trubridge calls it the worst scam he has seen in 20 years.

Singer Sarah Kaloczi has posted:

PLEASE SHARE THIS – IT’S IMPERATIVE FOR US TO CATCH MATTHIAS

Do YOU recognise this man’s voice? If so get in touch. It’s the voice of Matthias of BMU, the man responsible for heading up the BMU management scam that has seen hundreds of musicians, scammed out of thousands, followed by a vicious hate campaign against any of us that dared to stand up to him. Help us catch him, so justice can finally be served for those of us that fell victim to him.

For more information on the BBC story: bbc.in/2GgYhnR

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

I’m just about old enough to remember a time when piano duos were a thing — pairs who travelled the world playing nothing but four hand. I even had an adventurous young friend who made it her business to sleep with both members of a duo, just to see if it disrupted them.

Whatever happened to the piano duo?….

Read on here.

And here.

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John Hsu, cello in the Amadé Trio, taught both cello and viola da gamba at Cornell University, wrote a definitive handbook of French Baroque Viol technique and edited the works of Marin Marais.

He loved Haydn above all composers.

His trio partners were Malcolm Bilson and Sonya Monosoff.

He taught a full alf-century at Cornell.

Utah State has received complaints of mistreatment of female piano students.

Read here.

 

The international tenor Michel Sénéchal died yesterday.

Outside of Paris and Brussels, he appeared at the Salzburg and Glyndebourne festivals and at many major opera houses.

Renée Fleming counts him among her influences.