Dancing on Ivory: Romantic Transcriptions for Piano / Jue Wang

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Album Summary

Performer

• Jue Wang (Piano)

Composers

• Earl Wild (Piano) (1915 - 2010)
• Sergey Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)
• Adolf Schulz-Evler
• Ferruccio Busoni (1866 - 1924)
• Leopold Godowsky (1870 - 1938)
• Percy Grainger (1882 - 1961)
• Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 - 1787)
• György Cziffra (1921 - 1994)

Notes & Reviews:

Chinese pianist Jue Wang was first prize and gold medal winner of the Santander Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition. He has made successful debuts at Carnegie Hall and Wigmore Hall and has more than 100 performances worldwide as a soloist with orchestra and recitalist.

American Record Guide, July / August 2012
Only one or two tracks are actually worth listening to. My favorite is the tango by Albeniz. I don't know how authentic the style is - the dotted rhythms are suspiciously drawn out - but the atmosphere is great: relaxed, open, graceful, and lushly romantic. This hardly balances out the decidedly average performances of the likeable Gershwin tunes, not to mention a truly dreadful and incoherent Bach Chaconne.

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Greenfield Recital Hall, Manhattan School of Music (06/2011).

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Works Details

Grainger, Percy : Ramble on R Strauss's love duet from "Der Rosenkavalier"

• Performer: Jue Wang (Piano)
• Running Time: 5 min. 54 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic

Grainger, Percy : Love Walked In, transcription for piano (after Gershwin)

• Performer: Jue Wang (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1945

Wild, Earl [Piano] : Embraceable You, etude for piano (Virtuoso Etudes on Gershwin Songs)

• Performer: Jue Wang (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 48 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1973

Busoni, Ferruccio : Chaconne, transcription for piano in D minor (after J. S. Bach, BWV 1004), KiV B24

• Performer: Jue Wang (Piano)
• Running Time: 13 min. 30 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1893

Gluck, Christoph Willibald : Orpheus :: Melody

• Performer: Jue Wang (Piano)
• Notes: Composition written: Italy.
• Running Time: 4 min. 7 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Opera/Operetta

Rachmaninov, Sergei : Vocalise

• Performer: Jue Wang (Piano)
• Running Time: 5 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic

Godowsky, Leopold : Tango, contrapuntal arrangement for piano (after Albeniz's Op. 165/2)

• Performer: Jue Wang (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 10 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1921

Godowsky, Leopold : Le Cygne (The Swan), transcription for piano after Saint-Saëns

• Performer: Jue Wang (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 52 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic

György Cziffra (1921 - 1994) : Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, transcription for piano after Strauss

• Performer: Jue Wang (Piano)
• Running Time: 4 min. sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Schulz-Evler, Adolf : Arabesques on J. Strauss II's "The Blue Danube Waltz" for piano

• Performer: Jue Wang (Piano)
• Running Time: 10 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Waltz
• Written: 1904