“she fares extremely well in major solo works by Rachmaninov...Every one of the numbers in the Op. 33 Etudes-tableaux is vividly and incisively characterised, and she conjures a wonderful depth of feeling and range of keyboard colouring...The Corelli Variations here possess a poise, dignity and underlying melancholy that not every interpreter finds in this fascinating late work.” --BBC Music Magazine, August 2012 *****
Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice - September 2012
Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice - September 2012
“Here, even in Rachmaninov's most savage and turbulent pages, is playing of an awesome clarity and poise. Xiayin Wang makes her chosen composer sound greater and more indelibly Russian than ever...you will surely be lost in wonder at Wang's pianistic but above all musical glory. Such playing underlines the pity one feels for those poor puritan souls still unable to appreciate such beauty.” --Gramophone Magazine, September 2012
