Complete Recordings On Deutsche Grammophon
Jian Wang
Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon is an eleven-CD box set collecting the full recorded output of Chinese cellist Jian Wang for Deutsche Grammophon, Universal Music Australia, and DG China, released on June 5, 2026. Wang's path to this retrospective is one of classical music's most remarkable stories: born in 1968 in Xi'an and raised in Shanghai, he began studying cello with his father at age four, and at ten was featured prominently in Isaac Stern's 1979 visit to China — interactions that were captured in the Academy Award-winning documentary From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China (1981), which introduced Wang to international audiences as a child prodigy of extraordinary emotional depth. With Stern's encouragement, he entered the Yale School of Music in 1985, made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1986, and went on to become the first Chinese musician ever to sign an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon, beginning his DG discography in 1996. The box set is accompanied by a booklet featuring new liner notes by Jessica Duchen, drawn from an extensive interview with the artist.
The eleven discs span a broad range of repertoire from the Baroque through the twentieth century, encompassing works by Couperin, Bach, Haydn, Boccherini, Mozart, Schumann, Brahms, Fauré, Elgar, Sibelius, and Messiaen, and document Wang's work both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. Among the highlights are the Brahms Double Concerto recorded with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Claudio Abbado alongside violinist Gil Shaham, chamber music with pianist Maria João Pires, a Baroque album featuring works by Boccherini and Couperin with guitarist Göran Söllscher, and two recordings of Bach's complete Cello Suites — the first from 2004 and a second made in 2024 at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music's Opera House for the newly launched DG China label, representing two decades of deepening artistic perspective on the same monumental works. The collection stands as a testament to a career that bridged East and West at a pivotal moment in the globalization of classical music.
Complete Recordings On Deutsche Grammophon
Jian Wang
Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon is an eleven-CD box set collecting the full recorded output of Chinese cellist Jian Wang for Deutsche Grammophon, Universal Music Australia, and DG China, released on June 5, 2026. Wang's path to this retrospective is one of classical music's most remarkable stories: born in 1968 in Xi'an and raised in Shanghai, he began studying cello with his father at age four, and at ten was featured prominently in Isaac Stern's 1979 visit to China — interactions that were captured in the Academy Award-winning documentary From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China (1981), which introduced Wang to international audiences as a child prodigy of extraordinary emotional depth. With Stern's encouragement, he entered the Yale School of Music in 1985, made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1986, and went on to become the first Chinese musician ever to sign an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon, beginning his DG discography in 1996. The box set is accompanied by a booklet featuring new liner notes by Jessica Duchen, drawn from an extensive interview with the artist.
The eleven discs span a broad range of repertoire from the Baroque through the twentieth century, encompassing works by Couperin, Bach, Haydn, Boccherini, Mozart, Schumann, Brahms, Fauré, Elgar, Sibelius, and Messiaen, and document Wang's work both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. Among the highlights are the Brahms Double Concerto recorded with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Claudio Abbado alongside violinist Gil Shaham, chamber music with pianist Maria João Pires, a Baroque album featuring works by Boccherini and Couperin with guitarist Göran Söllscher, and two recordings of Bach's complete Cello Suites — the first from 2004 and a second made in 2024 at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music's Opera House for the newly launched DG China label, representing two decades of deepening artistic perspective on the same monumental works. The collection stands as a testament to a career that bridged East and West at a pivotal moment in the globalization of classical music.