Yuja Wang – Stravinsky, Scarlatti, Brahms, Ravel: Transformation (2010) [HDTracks FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Stravinsky, Scarlatti, Brahms, Ravel – Transformation – Yuja Wang (2010)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96kHz | Time – 01:00:54 minutes | 966 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Digital Booklet | © Deutsche Grammophon
Recorded: Hamburg-Harburg, Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, 1/2010

Transformation is a carefully constructed solo program featuring Brahms, Ravel, Scarlatti and Stravinsky. Yuja Wang’s title for her recording reflects the Buddhist idea that life consists of constant change, and she finds its musical rationale in Brahms transforming his theme 27 times; Ravel transforming the waltz by testing it to oblivion, and Stravinksky’s puppet Petrushka being temporarily transformed into a human being before finally reverting to puppet-hood – in Yuja’s view, a “world between creation and destruction.”

Yuja Wang is a wondrously gifted pianist whose debut album of sonatas by Chopin, Liszt and Scriabin, with the stimulating addition of two Ligeti Etudes, suggests a combination of blazing technique and a rare instinct for poetry . . . Wang is young, wonderfully talented and trained, superbly recorded and, if this disc is anything to go by, she has 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”. -Gramophone

Tracklist:

Igor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971)
Three Movements from Petrushka
1. Danse russe. Allegro giusto 02:30
2. Chez Pétrouchka 04:16
3. La Semaine grasse. Con moto – Allegretto – Tempo giusto – Agitato 08:46

Domenico Scarlatti (1685 – 1757)
4. Sonata in E major K. 380: Andante comodo 05:28

Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op.35
Book I
5. Thema. Non troppo presto 00:27
6. Variation I 00:24
7. Variation II 00:25
8. Variation III 00:26
9. Variation IV 01:00
10. Variation V 00:46
11. Variation VI 00:27
12. Variation VII 00:28
13. Variation VIII 00:29
14. Variation IX 01:00
15. Variation X 01:23
16. Variation XI: Andante 01:17
17. Variation XII 01:12
Book II
18. Variation I 00:43
19. Variation II: Poco animato 00:36
20. Variation V 00:24
21. Variation VI: Poco più vivace 00:21
22. Variation VII 00:19
23. Variation VIII: Allegro 00:29
24. Variation X: Feroce, energico 00:41
25. Variation XI: Vivace 00:25
26. Variation XII: Un poco Andante 01:10
27. Variation XIII: Un poco più Andante 00:56
28. Variation III 00:30
29. Variation IV: Poco Allegretto 00:54
Book I
30. Variation XIII: Vivace e scherzando 00:32
31. Variation XIV: Allegro – Presto, ma non troppo 02:07