Yuja Wang with Munich
Yuja Wang was highlighted this week for a performance of Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Munich Philharmonic — a major recital pairing drawing classical attention online. The social post flagging the performance circulated among listeners interested in large‑scale romantic piano repertoire. (x.com)
The concert was given on December 1, 2018 at Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, with Valery Gergiev conducting the Münchner Philharmoniker. (suntory.com; youtube.com). (suntory.com) The same program paired Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, a coupling preserved in the full-concert broadcast. (medici.tv). (youtube.com) That Tokyo date was one stop on a seven‑performance Asia tour the orchestra made with Wang and Gergiev at the end of 2018. (yujawang.com). (yujawang.com) A video of the complete concert is available online, and the widely circulated YouTube upload of the performance has logged more than two million views. (youtube.com). (youtube.com) Library and streaming catalog entries list the recording under the title "Valery Gergiev Conducts Brahms and Mahler — With Yuja Wang," confirming it was distributed as a recorded/broadcast item. (searchworks/medici.tv). (searchworks.stanford.edu)
