Sonatas & Etudes

"…22-year-old Yuja Wang is a wondrously gifted pianist whose debut album… suggests a combination of blazing technique and a rare instinct for poetry. In Scriabin's Second Sonata she is beautifully sensitive to the moods, whether tranquil and starlit or tempestuous, reflecting the composer's love of the Baltic Sea. She is fiery but never reckless in Chopin's Second Sonata... As a crowning touch her Ligeti Etudes are both musicianly and dazzlingly incisive. In the words of the publicist, "a star is born"." Gramophone Magazine
Editor's Choice - August 2009

Gifted Chinese pianist Yuja Wang debuts on DG's roster with an album featuring compositions by Chopin, Ligeti, Liszt, and Scriabin. Yuja Wang chooses pieces that, in her judgment, are refreshingly atypical of the customary musical perspectives of these composers. Exceptional artistry, technical perfection, and a rare ability to evoke an uncommonly vivid palette of rich colors from the instrument characterize Yuja Wang's pianism

After blazing through Ravel's Concerto for Left Hand, the Miami Herald wrote, "The evening's spotlight belonged to Yuja Wang . . . [who] showed remarkable fire and iron-fingered power."