Press Comments
October 2008 – Detroit/USA, Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Max Bruch: Violin concerto G minor
THE DETROIT NEWS, October 10, 2008
Young violinist makes a splash with the DSO
... the 21-year-old Yang had announced herself as the most important new violinist to come on the scene in many a year ...
... What impressed me more than her impeccable technique or lustrous sound was the expressive, highly personal and intelligent way she applied those qualities. Hers was a decidedly romantic take on the Bruch concerto, an ideal blend of singing line and dark drama.
At the end, an electrified audience whooped its approval for several minutes. ...
October 2008 – Sha Tin Town Hall Auditorium Hong Kong, Hong Kong Sinfonietta
Sergei Prokofiev: Violin concerto G minor, No. 2
CONCERTONET.COM, October 4, 2008
Masterly Performance by Youthful Violinist
... With her extraordinary command of the instrument and impeccable virtuosity, [Yang] has the potential of becoming a recognized violinist of our generation. ...
May 2008 - Williamsburg, Virginia/USA, Virginia Symphony Orchestra
Peter I. Tshaikovsky: Violin concerto D major, op. 35
THE VIRGINIA GAZETTE, May 28, 2008
On a High Note
... Yang dazzled the crowd with her extraordinarily lush tone, lyrical quality, pyrotechnic skills of the most amazing kind, and emotional delivery. It was artistry and bravura blended into a phenomenally flawless performance. ...
May 2007 - Bruchsaler Schlosskonzert
Prokofiev / Sarasate / Ysaÿe / Brahms d minor
KARLSRUHE, BADISCHE NEUESTE NACHRICHTEN
Virtuosos in the region
Tianwa Yang in Bruchsal
The exceptional violinist Tianwa Yang from Peking, ... just twenty years old but already with a considerable reputation, enchanted an attentive, captivated audience at Schloss Bruchsal in an evening violin recital, above all with her power of expression.
Her virtuosity is considerable, her dynamics are immense, her sound radiantly pure; and the use she made of striking agogic accents gave a real lustre to this fantastic evening of chamber music.She shone in the stylised Spanish dances by the composer Pablo de Sarasate with vivacity and her rapturous, multi-faceted revelling in the clichés of folk music; at times she appeared almost like a flamenco dancer casting her spell with the violin.
... In the baroque and romantic pieces, this wonderful violinist ... demonstrated a symmetry of emphasis within the symmetrical phrase structures of Tartini's music and its emotional embellishment that was without equal, a great beauty of intonation and, again and again, remarkable expressivity with spirited outbursts in performance that were simply sensational.
... Tianwa Yang and the pianist Paul Rivinius also shaped the sonata op.94a by Sergei Prokofiev, with its partial banality and constantly recurring eclecticism with great integrity and without any hint of kitsch...
April 2007 - Aalen
Tartini, Devil's Trill / Schumann a minor / Sarasate / Beethoven a minor /
Debussy g minor
SCHWÄBISCHE POST
Sounds that dance, weep and rage.
With no warm-up phase and no compromises, Tianwa Chang gives one hundred and fifty per cent right from the start. The violinist opened her concert with pianist Paul Rivinius in Aalen with 'The Devil's Trill' sonata, Giuseppe Tartini's most significant work, a daring choice and a technical minefield. From the first bar the performance exhibited cast-iron credentials that caused amazement again and again in the way they kept up to the end without flagging.
... She tackled Tartini's unforgiving trial by fire in G minor with Italianate lightness and a true cantabile, strolling through a thicket of double-stops, and series of trills and overtones with sure-footed elegance - what could have been more stunning?
... It would have been impossible to improve on Yang's and Rivinius' way with the music, the "Cocktail" by George Gerschwin, and the rhythms of black cotton-field workers put to good use in the subdued colours of late impression and early expressionism. This was more than just a concert; it was a great event.
March 2007 - Karlsruhe Badische Staatskapelle
Max Bruch Violin concerto
KARLSRUHE, BADISCHE NEUESTE NACHRICHTEN
Orchestra All Set To Go.
Two sensational performances at once from Justin Brown and Tianwa Yang at the Karlsruhe Symphony Concerts.
... the very young Tianwa Yang ... caused the second sensation of the evening with Bruch's violin concerto in G minor. Enthralled, we followed this miracle on the violin: with the maturity of her sound and her expression as well as unbelievable technical refinement that did not permit any insecurities, the prize-winning Chinese lady moved effortlessly in the same league as Hahn, Jansen, Josefowicz and Skride. After the sensational Bruch, she proceeded to conjure up Ysaye's Ballade as her encore.
January 2007 - Gernsbach
"The Eight Seasons" Vivaldi/Piazzolla
KARLSRUHE, BADISCHE NEUESTE NACHRICHTEN
Artists Win Euphoric Applause
The ensemble 'MusiciJAHNa' fires audience enthusiasm at the municipal hall, Gernsbach with 'The Eight Seasons'.
... What she was able to conjure up with apparent ease through technically brilliant playing was mesmerizing, as was her way of celebrating the programmatic themes of both composers, thought through down to the last detail, and was then able to express her joy with dancing lightness. Particularly enjoyable were the filigree moments of tenderness when she made her ... violin sing, for instance in the expressive romance from Vivaldi's 'Summer', and in a plaintive passage from Piazzolla's 'Winter', which went straight to the heart. The Argentennien 'Furiosi' also provided some thrilling bravura playing though, in which she, together with this brilliantly exceptional ensemble, inspired the audience - An expert performance from every player.
... the most enthusiastic audience who, with their ecstatically wild 'standing ovations' and loud cheers, clearly did not want it to come to an end.