Name: London Symphony OrchestraFrançois-Xavier Roth
Start: 2023-05-24T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-05-24T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

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Yuja Wang

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London Symphony Orchestra/François-Xavier Roth: Piano Concerto No.3 Lindberg, M. (+1 More)

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Piano Concerto No.3

Symphony No. 6 in F Major, op.68 ("Pastoral")

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Yuja Wang gives the UK premiere of Magnus Lindberg’s flamboyant new Piano Concerto: outsized inspiration, for a pianist who knows no limits. 

Beethoven said that his Pastoral Symphony was ‘more an expression of feelings than a picture’, but the result is some of the freshest and happiest music ever created. As for Magnus Lindberg’s new Piano Concerto … it’s never been heard in the UK before, but everything Lindberg writes causes a sensation. ‘It’s huge’ he says. ‘In a way, it’s the biggest piece I’ve written’.  

You’d expect no less, because he wrote it specially for our soloist Yuja Wang – probably the most famous pianist in the world right now. ‘Yuja Wang’s pianism inspires a sense of wonder’ wrote one critic after she played solo at the Barbican; tonight, she makes musical history in a concerto that Lindberg says is as dramatic as any opera. And if any pianist can do drama, it’s Yuja Wang.

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London Symphony Orchestra/François-Xavier Roth by Lindberg, M., Beethoven, From (2023/2023), Conductor François-Xavier Roth, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom

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