Here’s the cover of Yuja Wang’s latest CD. It will be released on April 10th.
I like the track list, though:
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873–1943)
1. Étude-tableau in A minor op. 39 no. 6
2. Étude-tableau in A minor op. 39 no. 4
3. Élégie in E flat minor op. 3 no. 1
4. Étude-tableau in E flat minor op. 39 no. 5
Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757)
5. Sonata in G major K. 455
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787)
arr. Giovanni Sgambati (1841–1914)
6. Mélodie de Gluck, Melody from Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice
Isaac Albéniz (1860–1909)
7. Triana, from Iberia, Book II
Georges Bizet (1838–1875)/Vladimir Horowitz (1903–1989)
8. Variations on a Theme from Carmen
(Gypsy Song, Act II)
Franz Schubert (1797–1828)/arr. Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
9. Gretchen am Spinnrade D118
Johann Strauss (1825–1899)/arr. György Cziffra (1921–1994)
10. Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka op. 214
Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
11. Valse in C sharp minor op. 64 no. 2
Paul Dukas (1865–1935)/arr. Victor Staub (1872–1953)
12. L’Apprenti sorcier
Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915)
13. Prélude in B major op. 11 no. 11
14. Prélude in B minor op. 13 no. 6
15. Prélude in G sharp minor op. 11 no. 12
16. Étude in G sharp minor op. 8 no. 9
17. Poème in F sharp major op. 32 no. 1
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
arr. Franz Liszt/Vladimir Horowitz
18. Danse macabre op. 40
No comments? They must have her wearing the wrong red dress.
Despite the dearth in comments for this one, I’d bet the hit count is strong.
Yeah, I thought there’d be a comment barrage, but it never materialized. Not that many hits, either. I guess people have moved on …
I at least thought that someone would point out that Wang’s dress and wings are a post-modern homage to the famous cover of Walter Gieseking’s recording of Debussy’s Preludes, though Gieseking looked even hotter.
“…though Gieseking looked even hotter.”
While they did manage to create a rather unattractive image of Yuja for that cover (which must have taken a lot of work), you might want to have your eyes checked out!.