MUSIC
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2018
8:00 PM

Yuja Wang & Martin Grubinger
Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan

$22.50-$125
https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2018/10/26/Yuja-Wang-Piano-Martin-Grubinger-Percussion-0800PM

Stunning pianist/glamor girl Yuja Wang teams with a masterly percussionist and some of his colleagues for a recital.  Each piece on the program is an arrangement by percussionist Gruber's father, a master percussionist himself who is also appearing (that must have been one noisy household when the younger Martin was growing up).  We get Bartók's great Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion arranged for one piano and percussion -- although one would have thought Wang capable of playing the two piano parts by herself without any rearrangement.  The Rite of Spring arranged for piano and percussion -- in these hands, that ought to be something to hear.  There's more -- but you get the picture.  These are very charismatic performers, and this should be quite a show.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Good bistro food at Benoit.