Release Date: 03 February 2023
Label: Challenge Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 608917292824
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Composer/Series: La Leggierezza
Description
A stunning debut by 24 years old chinese pianist Yang Yang Cai.
Cai has selected six very diversified works by Liszt, in order to convey all her pianistic qualities: prowess and virtuosity, but also philosophical insight and colouristic finesse.
Yang Yang Cai (1998) is a Chinese-Dutch pianist based in The Netherlands. She has performed widely throughout The Netherlands. She began playing the piano at the age of five with Noor Relijk. Subsequently she continued her piano studies with renowned professor Jan Wijn. After working with him for ten years, she completed her bachelor's degree in piano with the highest final mark at the Conservatory of Amsterdam in May 2019. Yang Yang is currently studying with Enrico Pace at the prestigious Accademia Pianistica di Imola in Italy and with Frank Van Der Laar at the Conservatory of Amsterdam in The Netherlands.
"...dutch pianist Yang Yang Cai (24) is now the age of that spirituality-hungry composer. You can hear that in her style, which seeks dialogue with the spirit of the mysterious Liszt with wonder and playful curiosity... her playing floats uninhibitedly - though no less characterfully - through the space." - FIVE STARS, NRC
"Cai scores her greatest success in the Apparitions. She is heartfelt and intense in the obsessive wheeling around a single idea in 'Il lamento'" – International Piano
Tracklisting
Roberto Prosseda
Cappella Pratensis; Tim Braithwaite; Wim Diepenhorst
Andreas Mader; Cecile Vonderwahl; Nikita Gerkusov; Choully Pyun; Alberto Navarra; Ivan Sherstnev; M
Matthieu Idmtal
Markus Miesenberger; Christian Haimel
La Bellemont
Barbara Kozelj; Residentie Orkest The Hague; Jun Markl
Giulio Padoin; Gabriele Lucherini
Jack Hancher
Stephanos Thomopoulos
Simone Pierini
Shura Cherkassky
Roberto Prosseda
Reinis Zarins
Peter Jablonski; Gavle Symphony Orchestra; Christian Reif
Nicolas Namoradze
