Documentary/Concert

No: 745408
Composer: George Gershwin, Maurice Ravel
Conductor: Lionel Bringuier
Orchestra: Camerata Salzburg
Artists: Gustavo Dudamel, Gauthier Capuçon, Leonidas Kavakos
Production year: 2018-09
Run time: 01:29:00
Director: A film by Anaïs & Olivier Spiro

Through the Eyes of Yuja

Repertoire

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue & Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major

Synopsis

This film is a journey with the famous pianist Yuja Wang. With more than 120 performances a year, she lives a nomadic lifestyle. The exploration of Yuja’s wanderings is a travelogue of exciting venues, glitzy cities and encounters with extraordinary artists, such as Gustavo Dudamel, Gauthier Capuçon and Leonidas Kavakos and personalities of other professional horizons but there is also a downside: fatigue, jet lag, pressure, doubts, hostilities, disorientation, and loneliness. With a bittersweet reference to the transience of life, the film reveals the invisible that complements the visible and shows us this artist in a very personal way. “Pianists have to be alone all the time, and it’s hard, it’s lonely. Being a musician is almost like a very isolated life, and the only time you actually get to communicate is on stage with music. It’s not a bad thing. I think being solitary, it really allows us to think about life and to think about why people write this music. [...] It makes you start to wonder about things that are beneath the surface.” Yuja Wang