Artist: Strauss / Wei
Title: Im 3-4 Takt
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Format: CD
Release Date: 2019
Label: Centaur
UPC: 044747373423
Genre: Classical Artists
The present release is an album of piano transcriptions of works by Johann Strauss I and II, Kritz Kreisler, and Franz Schubert. The arrangers include great pianists such as Sergei Rachmaninoff, Moriz Rosenthal, and Carl Tausig. Dr. Muen Wei, a native of China, has performed internationally as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral pianist, and jazz pianist. She has been applauded by critics for her "delicate playing" and "admirable virtuosic skills."(The News-Gazette) She has been guest soloist under the baton of Ian Hobson, Donald Schleicher, and Xiaoying Zheng. As a chamber musician, Dr. Wei has collaborated with great musicians such as Lynn Harrell, Henry Gronnior, Peter Lloyd, Ko Iwasaki and Stan Sharp, among others. Dr. Wei also performed in many prestigious festivals such as the Gilmore Keyboard Festival and the Montecito International Music Festival. In July 2017, she was invited to give a solo recital at the Dean Acheson Auditorium of the US State Department.
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