DG STARS SHINE IN YouTube CARNEGIE CONCERT
Deutsche Grammophon was on hand as conductor Michael Tilson Thomas introduced the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, the world's first ever orchestra selected entirely through online auditions, in its world debut on Wednesday at a sold-out concert at New York's Carnegie Hall.
Associate Press declared that "the show was nearly stolen by youngsters mentored by pianist Lang Lang", the YouTube Symphony Orchestra's "ambassador". The New York Times marvelled to hear “brilliant young pianist" Yuja Wang "dash off a rippling account of the perpetual-motion Scherzo from Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto" and her "showpiece solo encore, a stunningly difficult" arrangement of Flight of the Bumblebee, while the reviewer for ConcertoNet.com wrote: "Two soloists stood out over the three-hour concert. Yuja Wang played György Cziffra's arrangement of Flight of the Bumblebee. She didn't play it at the speed of light - she made the speed of light seem to be as slow as the proverbial tortoise . . . It would be superfluous to say that the Canadian Measha Brueggergosman is the most fantastic singer in the world today. I cannot think of anything she cannot do - and in John Cage's Aria she did it all."
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Photo copyrights: Lang Lang (Felix Broede / DG), Measha Brueggergosman (Felix Broede / DG) and Yuja Wang (Paul Elledge / DG)
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