Pianist Xiayin Wang has managed to score with both of her first two discs; a mixed recital, Introducing Xiayin Wang, and some Brahms chamber music partnered with the Amity Players, both for Marquis. In Scriabin: Piano Music, Wang makes her debut on Naxos, and it is a little surprising that Naxos would allow Wang to go forward with this composer; after all, it already has plenty of Scriabin, played by pianists such as Alexander Paley, Beatrice Long, Bernd Glemser, and Evgeny Zarafiants. Nevertheless, Wang is particularly ...
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Pianist Xiayin Wang has managed to score with both of her first two discs; a mixed recital, Introducing Xiayin Wang, and some Brahms chamber music partnered with the Amity Players, both for Marquis. In Scriabin: Piano Music, Wang makes her debut on Naxos, and it is a little surprising that Naxos would allow Wang to go forward with this composer; after all, it already has plenty of Scriabin, played by pianists such as Alexander Paley, Beatrice Long, Bernd Glemser, and Evgeny Zarafiants. Nevertheless, Wang is particularly passionate about Scriabin and included some of his music on her first disc, Introducing Xiayin Wang; to have a whole disc of Scriabin with Wang is undoubtedly a boon.Wang manages to cut a diagonal path across Scriabin's output, largely drawing from lesser known pieces, including the waltzes, poems, and pieces in genres he visited no more than once or a couple of times. These are often treated as afterthoughts by pianists in the course recording of comprehensive Scriabin packages, in...
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