Yuja heads for China
NewsThe piano star is heading for an 18-day homeland tour in December.
She has never matched Lang Lang’s star status in China. Could this be the moment?
Here’s her itinerary
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Playing Turangalila preceded by a Mozart symphony?!
And coordinating the Stravinsky concerto from the piano!
She is too much of a serious musician to compete with Lang Lang for mass appeal.
I’m not sure about this!!
She is starting to conduct? Interesting …
She already played Beethoven’s piano concertos no. 1 and 2 without a conductor with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in 2017. There are recordings on youtube.
Not realy.
I see she’ll be in Xi’an.
Given the prudishness of the Chinese communist regime, I will be interested to see her clothing choices.
She has an outstanding technique (Lang Lang – not so much^^) and doesn’t pretend to be severely sick all the time while playing – Chinese television once used a dress of hers as an example for spoiled capitalism – so that will be interesting – will she go for the orange one (PROMS 2023) or the red one (PROMS 2022)??? Besides I wouldn’t play in China at all – it’s a dictatorship like Russia with a lot of human rights violations on all levels!
Probably you have never played in China anyway.
I have done many times all over PRC, in all its major cities.
Hey and I got paid (on time) for it, while the Chinese who learnt to play musical instruments don’t need us any more!
Although the country has changed a lot under Xi, you clearly forgot it was the WEST that treated China as a colony for centuries with staggering arrogance, and your comment about this huge diverse and ancient country doesn’t do much better.
Bang Bang is sloppy and never had Yuja’s precision and talent. If they don’t take to her, something is very wrong.