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Mr. Maazel led a taut performance (of Bernstein’s “Age of Anxiety”), and the orchestra played this dark-hued music vividly and with a sharp edge. But the standout was Joyce Yang, who gave a knockout performance of the alternately poetic, fiery and occasionally jazz-tinged piano line.
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de Waart conducted Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with Joyce Yang, Silver Medalist of the 12th Van Cliburn International Competition, as the soloist ... She played with a polished, pearly evenness that was remarkable for its ease up and down the keyboard.
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Sunday's snazzy performance found Conlon and his soloist, the brilliant young South Korean pianist Joyce Yang, fully inside the music's manic mood-swings – brooding deliberation giving way to exuberant flights of honkytonk jazz. Yang brought a teasing, improvisatory bounce to the ‘Masque’ jam-session.
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Vivid and beautiful playing
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Her attention to detail and clarity is as impressive as her agility, balance and velocity.
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Astonishing virtuoso with tremendous suggestive power and imagination.
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