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What I find thrilling about this recording, though, is the thread of unity I hear throughout the music - a thread made crystal clear by the sublime fusion of technical clarity and musical sensitivity in Wang's playing.ДЄccording to the liner notes, among the ideas Wang considered for her debut recording was an albumВ of encore pieces, to showcase her 'flair for virtuosic transcriptions.' I'm so relieved that she didn't go with that concept. She calls the Scriabin 'improvisatoryвЂ¦like a fantasy world,' and the Liszt, 'like heaven or hell.' Ligeti, on the other hand, provides 'little sparkles in between the bigger works.'ДЇair enough with a collection of works as rich as this one, we could 'compare and contrast' 'til the cows came home. Wang describes her programming choices in terms of contrast: the three big, juicy romantic sonatas by Chopin, Scriabin and Liszt, interspersed with the mathematical precision of the Ligeti etudes. The idea of digging a wormhole to transport us superluminally from a late work of Chopin to a late work of Ligeti hadn't occurred to me before, but when I heard it I thought, 'Well, of course!' Ligeti acknowledged the influence of Chopin on his piano etudes (along with Scarlatti, Schumann and Debussy), but hearing the two composers side by side like that was a revelation. Such is the genius of Wang's recording: the connections drawn between and among this collection of piano works are at once familiar and fresh. Yet the transition from 1839 to 1985 was disarmingly smooth. The next track started with a repeated scale figure that was not quite in one key, not fully in the other, and I knew I was firmly in Ligetian territory. I knew that Ligeti, iconoclast though he may have been, wouldn't have done a crazy thing like that!

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And I really like its imperfection.' As a fan of all things charmingly imperfect, I concur!ДЄfter losing myself in the famous 'Funeral March' movement, I was jostled back to full consciousness by a quick-as-the-wind perpetuum mobile-type of thing, and I thought to myself, 'Is this still Chopin, or have we moved on to one of the Ligeti etudes? Either way, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore!' But that brief movement ended with an unmistakably tonal cadence, punctuated not once, not twice, but three times with a B-flat minor chord. 'Chopin wrote so many perfect compositions,' Wang says in the albumВ liner notes, 'but his second sonata is not perfect. The first and second movements may lack the overabundance of pretty melody for which Chopin is knownВ -В but the music has a harmonic urgency that I find compelling. 'The Funeral March,' from whence the sonata gets its nickname, is immortal (hehe). Like most people, I don't know the Chopin sonata nearly as well as his other, more popular works.

Chopin's sonata provided a rather dramatic soundtrack for my Facebook friends' status updates. Placeholder for invalid migrated embed (See migrate logs for details).Д«eing the multi-tasker that I am, I loaded this disc into my laptop and listened through headphones while reading e-mail and otherwise making my usual morning Internet rounds. I usually have oatmeal for breakfast, but this morning I sank my teeth into pianist Yuja WangвЂ™s debut album, Sonatas & Etudes, which has been GRAMMY-nominated for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (Without Orchestra).