Fong Fei Fei

This publication celebrates the promised gift to The Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Oscar Tang family of twelve major works from the C. C. Wang Family Collection, one of the great private collections of Chinese old master paintings to be assembled in the twentieth century. Ranging in date from the tenth to the early eighteenth century, these works significantly extend the Museum's holdings and reveal those areas of Chinese painting of particular interest to Mr. Wang. …

In my first recording for Le Palais des Dégustateurs I have selected works that are of special meaning for me and that have evolved over time.The Liszt sonata is at the core of my repertoire. It is a work into which I can pour the widest range of deepest emotions. I chose the other Liszt works on the disc to show other facets of his genius as a chronicler of the human condition: the reflection of the Consolations, the harrowing commemoration of the Hungarian revolution of 1848 in the Funérailles, the precious rarity that is the Hymne de la Nuit, and an example of Liszt’s idealistic homages to other composers in his transcription of Schubert’s “Auf dem Wasser zu singen.”I particularly cherish the Chopin preludes and I constantly revisit the extraordinary variety of their characters. The Third Sonata is a work that I first performed as a teenager and whose nobility, grace, and thrill never cease to amaze me. (Ya-Fei Chuang)