Yuja Wang - Fantasia
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ALBENIZ / RACHMANINOV / LISZT / SCRIABIN / SCARLATTI / etc
Yuja Wang - Fantasia
Yuja Wang (piano)
[ Deutsche Grammophon / CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 8 March 2012
The Yuja Wang album that everyone has been waiting for wows with musical miniatures that are short, sweet, and huge in impact. These encore pieces by Scriabin, Gluck, Rachmaninov, Chopin and others will enthrall Yuja Wang's fans with challenging technical demands and the bravura precision of her execution. The variety of styles - which includes neo-Classical, Impressionist, Romantic, jazz - in addition to the quality of the arrangements of pieces that are adaptations, provides a welcome and yet unique listening experience.
"No point trying to fault anything: the lightness and flexibility of her touch takes the breath away, and her sound is at every moment transparently controlled, each piece displaying insight and affection...Given that these bonnes bouches were never designed to be consumed in bulk, this young virtuoso has pulled off a remarkable feat." Five Stars BBC Music Instrumental Choice June 2012
"n the Saint-Saens-Horowitz Danse macabre Wang storms the heights and her playing is of an unquenchable virtuosity. She herself declares all these pieces to be among her most cherished encores, and she has been superbly recorded in them" Gramophone Editor's Choice June 2012
Tracks:
Albéniz:
Triana (from Iberia, book 2)
Chopin:
Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2
Dukas:
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (arranged by Victor Staub)
Gluck:
Orfeo ed Euridice: Mélodie (arranged by Sgambati)
Horovitz:
Variations On A Theme From Bizet's Carmen
Rachmaninov:
Étude-Tableau, Op. 39 No. 6 in A minor
Étude-Tableau, Op. 39 No. 4 in B minor
Elegie, Op. 3 No. 1
Étude-Tableau, Op. 39 No. 5 in E flat minor
Saint-Saëns:
Danse macabre, Op. 40 (arranged by Franz Liszt & Vladimir Horowitz)
Scarlatti, D:
Keyboard Sonata K455 in G major
Schubert:
Gretchen am Spinnrade, D118 (arranged by Franz Liszt)
Scriabin:
Prelude, Op. 11 No. 11 in B major
Prelude, Op. 13 No. 6 in B minor
Prelude, Op. 11 No. 12 in G sharp minor
Étude Op. 8 No. 9 in G sharp minor
Poème in F sharp major, Op. 32 No. 1
Strauss, J, II:
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, Op. 214 (arranged by György Cziffra)
