Yuja Wang plays Tchaikovsky, Second Piano Concerto, with manuscript score

To his very famous First Concerto, Tchaikovsky preferred the Second Concerto for piano and orchestra. It is true that this work contains some very beautiful themes, and that its slow movement is very original: it sounds like a Trio for piano, violin and cello, with orchestra accompaniment (or like a Triple Concerto). I have the pleasure of providing Tchaikovsky’s handwritten score of this work. The version played here has a very brief cut in the first movement, and two slightly larger cuts in the last two movements. But it is more faithful to the original score than the often-played version by Alexander Siloti, whose cuts are more important. Yuja Wang’s musicality and purity of sound are, here as elsewhere, incomparable. 1er mvmt : 0:35 2e mvmt : 21:07 3e mvmt : 33:31