Thu 4/10 @7:30PM
Fri 4/11 @ 11AM
Sat 4/12 @ 8PM
Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 may be better known (think Eric Carmen’s “All By Myself”) but his No. 3 in D minor is equally beloved of pianists looking to dazzle audiences with their technical chops on an audaciously and conspicuously challenging piece of music.
Young Chinese pianist Yuja Wang, who recently turned 27 but with a concert career already almost a decade along, is extremely comfortable with the piece. She recorded it with the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela conducted by Gustavo Dudamel for her newly released fifth CD on Deutsche Grammophon Records.
Want to hear her do it live? No problem. She makes her Severance Hall debut with the Cleveland Orchestra this week, at which she’ll be playing the piece. And she’s not only known as a dazzling, accomplished musician but as a snazzy dresser – think Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City.
The concerts also include Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony. The evening concerts add Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade. Giancarlo Guerrero, principal guest conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra Miami, conducts.
Tickets are $49-$149.