Catalogue # 4790052
ABC Classic FM CD of the Week: 8th April 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.
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
