Sheng Cai – Grieg: Piano Sonata in E minor, Op. 7; Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, Op. 46; Ballade in G minor, Op. 24; Scenes of Country life, Op. 19 (2021)
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Pianist Sheng Cai devotes his latest recording to piano works by Edvard Grieg, Norway’s most famous composer. At the age of 22, Grieg wrote his only Piano Sonata, Op. 7, dedicated to his teacher, the influential Danish composer Niels Gade. The piano arrangement of Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, Op. 46 is recorded here in a piano transcription by Grieg and by the Russian pianist Grigori Guinzburg (1904-1961).
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Sheng Cai – Sheng Cai Plays Rachmaninoff (2023)
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Pianist Sheng Cai devotes his latest recording to piano works by the renowned Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Dedicated to composer Aleksandr Zatayevich and revised in 1940, Six moments musicaux, Op. 16 represents a turning point in Rachmaninoff’s writing for solo piano. Abandoning the conventions of salon music, the work is imbued with heightened Romanticism and technical complexity. Rachmaninoff’s Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 36 overflows with intertwined countermelodies in the style of Robert Schumann and with its astonishing virtuosity, follows in the footsteps of Franz Liszt.
Rachmaninoff and his friend, the celebrated pianist Vladimir Horowitz, enjoyed transcribing celebrated opera arias, allowing themselves the freedom to change their interpretations spontaneously. It is in this same spirit that Sheng Cai transcribed and performs the piano transcription of the opera Aleko. “I try to create new sounds and colors on the piano which differ from [those in] the orchestral versions of these scores,” says Cai.
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