Barber / Copland / Gershwin - American Piano Concertos - Wang, Xiayin (piano)
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The young Chinese-born pianist Xiayin Wang, now resident in the USA, has been enthralling audiences worldwide and gaining ever greater international acclaim with her winning combination of consummate technical brilliance, fine musicianship, and personal verve. Here she is the soloist in three great American piano concertos, joined by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Peter Oundjian. The Concerto in F by George Gershwin, composed in 1925, represents one of his finest syntheses of the classical and jazz traditions, and his extraordinary skill as a tunesmith is displayed throughout. Xiayin Wang has already shown her natural affinity with Gershwin's music in a previous Chandos release, playing Earl Wild's Gershwin transcriptions with 'verve, brilliance and sheer delight', as American Record Guide put it. The Piano Concerto by Aaron Copland, from 1926, is another work influenced by jazz but unlike Gershwin's, Copland's style reflects the jazz elements used by composers such as Milhaud and Stravinsky, living in Paris in the 1920s. Samuel Barber's Concerto for Piano, dating from 1962, is another work that shows the diversity of influence in American music in the twentieth century. There are elements of Russian music and jazz as well as the romanticism that we find in all of Barber's output.