“The Dutch pianist Yang Yang Cai (24) has now reached the age of that composer yearning for spirituality. You can hear that in her style, which, with amazement and playful curiosity, seeks a dialogue with the spirit of the mysterious Liszt. It is not for nothing that she probably named the album after the concert etude La Leggierezza, the lightness, because her playing floats uninhibited - although it is no less characterful - through space. You will find in her playing the intense love that Liszt himself had for the piano."

NRC, 19-1-2023