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Chiyan Wong, London Symphony Orchestra, Christoph Koncz – Swing!: Tsfasman x Ravel (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:49 minutes | 655 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Platoon
Professional soloists had the rare luxury of straying from their demanding routines when the coronavirus pandemic hit, and pianist Chiyan Wong found himself signing up for online jazz lessons during one particular lull.
His February 2022 concerts with the Hong Kong Philharmonic had just been cancelled and the Berlin-based soloist was looking for something to do.
But a mild flirtation has since become a serious pursuit, the 34-year-old says. And now, back in Hong Kong for the rescheduled concerts, he is also announcing the launch of a new record that has a finger-busting stride.
At the launch event on April 25 at the Hong Kong Fringe Club – which incidentally is trying to revive its long association with the city’s jazz scene – Wong was effusive with the thrill of discovery in spite of suffering with a heavy cold, and performed samples from the album, called Swing!, which is an exuberant pairing of two works for piano and orchestra throbbing with the syncopated vernacular of jazz.
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Chiyan Wong – Bach – Busoni: Goldberg Variations & Other Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 57:16 minutes | 1,86 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Linn Records
Following his critically acclaimed debut Liszt Transfigured: Operatic Fantasies for Piano, which won the 40th Liszt Ferenc International Grand Prix du Disque in 2018, Chiyan Wong returns to record his second album for Linn. Alongside the piano music of Liszt, the music of Ferruccio Busoni has been a guiding light for the young, eclectic pianist. Here Chiyan combines Busoni’s kaleidoscopic arrangement of Bach’s famous Goldberg Variations, which celebrates the powerful sonority and range of the modern concert grand, with Bach’s timeless original. Chiyan’s ‘dazzling technical finish’ (Gramophone) and luxuriant sound are on full display in Busoni’s arrangement of Bach’s famous Chaconne, a classic in the genre. Inversion, mirroring and variations are also idiomatic devices in Busoni’s Sonatina ‘in diem Nativitatis Christi MCMXVII and Chiyan’s own ‘composition etude’, Inversion of Variation 15 (Canone alla quinta), which complete this one-of-a-kind programme.
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