Wild Dreams (Joyce Yang album)

Wild Dreams is the third solo release by Joyce Yang.[1] "Basing her recital around dream and night, Joyce Yang puts unlike alongside unlike in a dream-like sequence, one where ‘impulse trumps logic’, as she describes it."[2]

Wild Dreams
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 11, 2014
VenueRecital Hall at The Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, State University of New York
GenreAvant-garde, Contemporary classical music
Length60:24
LabelAvie [ AVR 2261 ]
ProducerElizabeth Ostrow

Track listing edit

Sergey Rachmaninov edit

  1. Dreams (Arr. Earl Wild), Op. 38/5 – 3:25
  2. Vocalise (Arr. Earl Wild), Op. 34/14 – 7:12

In einer Nacht, Op. 15 by Paul Hindemith edit

  1. Müdigkeiten – 1:35
  2. Sehr langsam – 1:22
  3. Sehr lebhaft, flimmernd – 0:52
  4. Nervosität, nicht schnell – 0:54
  5. Scherzo: Äußerst lebhaft – 1:04

Out of Doors, Sz 81, BB 89 by Béla Bartók edit

  1. With drums and pipes – 1:45
  2. Barcarolla – 2:56
  3. Musettes – 3:37
  4. The night's music – 5:29
  5. The chase – 2:13

Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 by Robert Schumann edit

  1. Des abends – 3:07
  2. Aufschwung – 3:11
  3. Warum? – 2:36
  4. Grillen – 3:05
  5. In der nacht – 4:01
  6. Fabel – 2:58
  7. Traumes wirren – 2:33
  8. Ende vom Lied – 4:58

Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 36 by Sergey Rachmaninov edit

  1. Allegro agitato 8:01
  2. Non allegro. Lento 6:00
  3. Allegro molto 5:41

The Little Island, Op. 14, No. 2 edit

  1. by Sergey Rachmaninov (Arr. Earl Wild)

Personnel edit

  • Joyce Yang: piano

Production edit

  • Béla Bartók – composer
  • Dennis Collins – liner note translation
  • Georgina Curtis – design
  • Mark Donahue – engineer
  • Paul Hindemith – composer
  • Kt Kim Cover – photo, photography
  • Andreas Klatt – liner note translation
  • Jeremy Nicholas – liner notes
  • Elizabeth Ostrow – producer
  • Sergey Rachmaninov – composer
  • Robert Schumann – composer
  • Dirk Sobotka – editing, mastering
  • Earl Wild – transcription
  • Joyce Yang – liner notes, piano, primary artist

References edit

  1. ^ AllMusic, accessed December 22, 2020
  2. ^ Gramophone, Harriet Smith, accessed December 22, 2020