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…Yuja Wang… has all the equipment to be one of the most exciting pianists of her generation. As well as a stunning technique she has a fabulous range of sonority and colour… the two Ligeti Etudes,... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 4th May 2009
Catalogue No: 4778140
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Length: 73 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

August 2009

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Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 'Marche funèbre'

Work length24:31

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$4.60

Yuja Wang (piano)
Recorded: 2008-11-14
Recording Venue: Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg

I. Grave - Doppio movimento

Track length7:50

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$1.15

II. Scherzo - Più lento - Tempo I

Track length6:48

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III. Marche funèbre (Lento)

Track length8:25

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IV. Finale (Presto)

Track length1:28

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Ligeti: Études for piano, book 1 (études 1-6)

Work length3:40

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$1.15

Yuja Wang (piano)
Recorded: 2008-11-14
Recording Venue: Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg

Etude n 4-Fanfares

Track length3:40

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Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 2 in G sharp minor, Op. 19 'Sonata Fantasy'

Work length12:19

$1.70

$2.30

Yuja Wang (piano)
Recorded: 2008-11-14
Recording Venue: Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg

I. Andante

Track length8:18

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II. Presto

Track length4:01

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Ligeti: Etude No. 10 "Der Zauberlehring"

Work length2:14

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Yuja Wang (piano)
Recorded: 2008-11-14
Recording Venue: Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg

Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor, S178

Work length31:11

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$3.45

Yuja Wang (piano)
Recorded: 2008-11-14
Recording Venue: Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg

Lento assai - Allegro energico - Grandioso - Recitativo

Track length12:23

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Andante sostenuto

Track length7:44

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Allegro energico - Andante sostenuto - Lento assai

Track length11:04

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$1.15

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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."

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July 2009

…Yuja Wang… has all the equipment to be one of the most exciting pianists of her generation. As well as a stunning technique she has a fabulous range of sonority and colour… the two Ligeti Etudes, especially 'Fanfares', suit her dazzling fingerwork perfectly. Pianistically, parts of her Liszt Sonata are extraordinary, with blistering octaves, razor-sharp articulation and a wonderful tonal richness.

2010

Curtis-trained under Gary Graffman, Wang tells us in an accompanying DVD of her special love for music of drama and turbulence and how ever since first hearing Pollini's recording of the Chopin Etudes she dreamt of recording for DG.
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, off like the proverbial greyhound at the first doppio movimento, and offers a dramatic bass emphasis at the climax of the heaven-storming development.
Her finale is truly sotto voce yet with the widest variety of touch and expression, and for the most part her playing, while sharply individual, is free from all distorting idiosyncrasy or mannerism.
You wont hear anything on the scale of Richter or Gilels in the Liszt Sonata but on the other hand Wang is young, wonderfully talented and trained, superbly recorded and, if this disc is anything to go by, with the world at her feet. As a crowning touch her Ligeti Etudes are both musicianly and dazzlingly incisive. In the words of the publicist, 'a star is born'.

August 2009

…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".

25th June 2009

The opening movement of Chopin’s Second Sonata certainly identifies qualities of youthful impetuosity, power and dexterity.

23rd May 2009

The Scriabin (sonata no 2) flows nicely; in the Liszt B minor sonata she’s no empty virtuoso. A talent worth watching.

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