The album's programming is compared to a curated art exhibition, where the curator carefully considers the gallery's dimensions and each painting's size.
Album & Artwork
Yuja Wang frequently defies the tradition of piano recitals starting with Classical, followed by Romantic, and then contemporary works, often concluding with a virtuoso showpiece.
Interpretation
Leticia Gómez-Tagle's piano transcription of Arturo Márquez's popular Danzón No. 2 is so resourceful that the original orchestration is hardly missed.
Compositional Technique
György Ligeti, the composer of the Études, openly cited the subliminal influence of Conlon Nancarrow's complex Studies for Player Piano in his compositions.
Compositional Technique
Ligeti's Étude No. 13, 'L'escalier du diable' (The Devil's Staircase), is a relentless toccata that moves up and down the keyboard in polymetric patterns.
Compositional Technique
Ligeti's Étude No. 6, 'Automne à Varsovie' (Autumn in Warsaw), features melodic motifs superimposed on one another within elaborate metrical layers.
Album & Artwork
The album's selections from different eras are mixed in a seemingly freewheeling yet cohesive manner, with one work evoking or suggesting the next.
