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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.
Etudes-Tableaux, Op.39 - No.6 in A minor
Etudes-Tableaux, Op.39 - No.4 in B minor
Elegie in E flat minor, Op.3, No.1
Etudes-Tableaux, Op.39 - No.5 in E flat minor
Sonata in G major, KK.455
Orfeo ed Euridice (Orphée et Eurydice) - Arranged Sgambati / Act 2 - Melodie dell'Orfeo
Iberia - for piano solo / Book 2 - 6. Triana
Variations on a theme from G. Bizet's "Carmen" (The Gypsy Song Act II) White House Version
Gretchen am Spinnrade, D.118 - arranged by Franz Liszt - Gretchen am Spinnrad, D 118 - arranged by Franz Liszt
Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka, Op.214 - arranged by György Cziffra
Waltz No.7 in C sharp minor, Op.64 No.2 - Tempo giusto
L'apprenti sorcier - arranged by Victor Staub
24 Preludes for piano, Op.11 - No. 11 in B
6 Preludes, Op. 13 - No. 6 in B minor
24 Preludes for piano, Op.11 - No. 12 in G sharp minor
12 Etudes for piano, Op.8 - No. 9 in C sharp minor
2 Poèmes, Op.32 - 1. Poème in F sharp
Danse macabre, Op.40 - arranged by Franz Liszt & Vladimir Horowitz
23rd March 2012
****
“Time and again Wang shows us why she’s become the world’s darling, whether shading dynamics poetically in a morsel of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, clarifying the multiple layers in Albéniz’s Triana, or romping with the preposterous glitter of Horowitz’s Carmen Variations.”
1st April 2012
“A disc of encores needs a compelling executant to justify itself, but this young pianist’s technique is quietly transcendent, her musicianship zestful and profound. The sequence itself is satisfying.”
June 2012
“In 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.”
June 2012
*****
“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.”
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Etudes-Tableaux, Op.39 - No.6 in A minor
