Where flash meets grandiloquence—that’s the place to look for Sergei Rachmaninoff, and the Beijing-born pianist Yuja Wang is in her element there, too. Over a series of eight concerts with Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil, Wang traverses the composer’s entire catalogue of works for piano and orchestra. We’re talking the infectious Rhapsody on a Theme By Paganini plus the four piano concertos, which are the only concertos he ever wrote. Of these, the first and fourth languish in the shadows of the oceanic second and the notoriously knuckle-crunching third. Coupled with the Rhapsody and the first two concertos is Symphonic Dances, the death-haunted grand finale of Rachmaninoff’s oeuvre, written in America. The choral symphony The Bells, set to text by Edgar Allan Poe, complements the third and fourth concertos. —Matthew Gurewitsch