About This Item
Solungga Liu has been acclaimed as a pianist of great breadth. She is a champion of early twentieth-century American music and underrepresented works of the standard repertoire. She is also known as an uncanny interpreter of new music. Her November 2017 debut at the Library of Congress was praised for it's Inchrhythmic precision, expression and a finely calibrated sense of balance between all of the moving parts.Inch There she performed a solo recital of works by Charles Griffes, Amy Beach and César Franck, a concert tailored to her strengths and uniquely composed of music from the Library's manuscript collection. In July, 2019, Liu performed Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the National Theater Symphony Orchestra of Brazil, under the joint invitation of the orchestra and the U. S. Embassy in Brazil, as part of American Independence Day Celebrations. Later that year she performed it's original 1924 Jazz Band version with the BGSU Jazz Lab Band. Post pandemic, Liu will perform this concerto with the physicians and researchers of the National Institute of Health's Philharmonia in Washington D.C. in 2022. The American Record Guide described her recording InchThe Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Khan Piano Works of Charles Tomlinson GriffesInch for Centaur Records, as having, Inchexcellent sound, sensitivity and beguiling color,Inch to which the Seattle Post-Intelligencer added, InchThis is an excellent recording. Liu has done justice to this sometime overlooked body of work with her playing, as she pays tribute to a unique and evocative composer.Inch This recording led to the special request by the Library of Congress that she premiere Griffes's 1915 piano transcription of Debussy's Les parfums de la nuit from his orchestral work Iberia, once thought lost by Griffes's biographers. About this world premiere, the Washington Classical Review wrote, InchThe piece retained an orchestr
