The Philadelphia Inquirer: For up-and-coming musicians, putting in work means starting at the top

Increasingly, young artists like Haochen Zhang, Yuja Wang, Stewart Goodyear, and James Ehnes take on heavy-weight repertoire they are often advised to save for middle age — or older.

Complete Beethoven piano concerto recordings just don’t just arrive out of thin air. But so it may seem in the just-released set — Nos. 1-5— by pianist Haochen Zhang and the Philadelphia Orchestra under principal guest conductor Nathalie Stutzmann.

All five concertos were recorded over three days at the Kimmel Center after only one two-hour rehearsal session.