Virtuoso Voices™ -  Yuja Wang (Liszt’s Life)  0:25
March 2010 CD 


[Use this clip to enhance your introduction of pianist Yuja Wang playing the Piano Sonata by Franz Liszt (DGG 001253402).]


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Pianist Yuja Wang (YOO-zha Wong) plays the monumental – some might even call it “larger than life" – Piano Sonata by Liszt on her debut CD.  Historically, the Sonata resides in two worlds.  Some say it’s pure and absolute music; others, like Yuja Wang, say it tells a story.



Yuja Wang Clip:

“I look at it as a autobiography of Liszt himself.  He goes through all the stages of life and it is like up to the heaven and down to hell instead of just kind of a little ups and downs.  And so there’s lots of devils going on and the color, I mean, is ingenious.  I think that’s one of his greatest work.”



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Interpretively, the Liszt Piano Sonata is one of his most challenging works – and the same could be said for its technical challenges.  Yuja Wang (YOO-zha Wong) is up for both; from her debut CD, here is the Piano Sonata in B minor by Franz Liszt.



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