Product Description
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The long-awaited and highly anticipated of
Lang Lang performing Chopin's Piano Concertos nos. 1 & 2 has
arrived. Both concertos are among the most beloved in the
repertoire and Lang Lang's many concert performances frequently
receive the highest praise. Lang Lang is joined by Zubin Mehta
and the Vienna Philharmonic in a brilliant pairing of talent and
temperament. This is sure to become a benchmark of
these beloved concertos.
Review
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"Lang Lang is a phenomenon, no doubt about it." -- The
Washington Post
"Lang Lang went about the entire piece [Chopin Piano Concerto no.
1] in a gentle, velvety way, rippling beautiful chromatic
passages with a liquid touch, rarely raising his voice above the
level of mezzo-forte." -- Los Angeles Times
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About the Artist
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Lang Lang plays sold-out, highly accled concerts in
all the world's major music venues. He has dem-onstrated an
extraordinary ability to connect with audiences on a deeply
personal level and has established himself as one of the most
outstanding pianists of our time. His talent and personality make
him an ideal ambassador for classical music and a role model for
young people. He has performed live on The Tonight Show with Jay
Leno, could also be seen on Sesame Street, and is the first
classical artist ever to perform an exclusive concert in the
digital world of Second Life. He is the first Chinese pianist to
be engaged by the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Wiener
Philharmoniker, and all "Big Five" American orchestras. 1982 Born
in Shenyang, China, Lang Lang begins his piano studies at the age
of three with Pro-fessor Zhu Ya-Fen from the Shenyang
Conservatory of Music 1987 Wins first prize in the Shenyang Piano
Competition and gives his first public recital. In the coming
years he takes first prize in the fifth Xing Hai Cup Piano
Competition in Beijing, first prize and "outstanding artistic
performance" in the fourth International Young Pianists
Competition in Germany, and first prize at the Tchaikovsky
International Young Musicians Competition held in 1995in Japan
1991 Studies with Professor Zhao Ping-Guo at the Central Music
Conservatory in Beijing 1995 Plays the complete Chopin Études in
the Beijing Concert Hall 1996 Performs as one of the soloists at
the inaugural concert of the China National Symphony, which
President Jiang Ze-Min attends as guest of honour 1997 Studies
with Gary Graffman at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia (until
2002) 1999 Decisive career breakthrough with his dramatic
last-minute substitution for André Watts at the Ravinia Festival,
playing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto no. 1 with the Chicago
Sym-phony Orchestra 2001 Sold-out Carnegie Hall debut to great
critical accl playing the Grieg Concerto. Travels to Beijing
with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Wolfgang Sawallisch for a
tour celebrating the orchestra's 100th anniversary. Sensational
BBC Proms debut playing Rachmaninov's Third Concerto 2001/2002
Recital debuts at London's Wigmore Hall, Washington's Kennedy
Center, and the Louvre in Paris. Debuts with the New York and
London Philharmonics, both with Christoph Es-chenbach, under
whose baton he also tours Europe. Performs with the NHK Symphony
Or-chestra under Charles Dutoit in concerts broadcast on NHK
Television throughout Japan 2002 First recipient of the Leonard
Bernstein Award at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival; featured in a
week-long residency with five concerts at the Ravinia Festival
2003 First release for Deutsche Grammophon: the Tchaikovsky and
Mendelssohn First Concertos, with Barenboim and the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra (Echo Award 2004). Festival appear-ances
include the opening concert of the BBC Proms, as well as Mostly
Mozart (debut), As-pen, Tanglewood, Ravinia, Verbier, and
Schleswig-Holstein. Triumphant Carnegie Hall re-cital debut,
recorded live and released in 2004 2004 Concerts with the Los
Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Berlin Staatskapelle,
Or-chestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, and Berliner Philharmoniker.
Becomes UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Festival appearances in
Ravinia and Verbier. Recital debut at the Berlin Phil-harmonie
and US recital tour. Echo Award as "Instrumentalist of the Year";
his Carnegie Hall Recital album enters the German pop charts and
is awarded an Austrian Amadeus Mu-sic Award in 2005 2005 Appears
in Beijing and on an extensive North American tour with the China
Philharmonic, as well as with leading orchestras including the
New York Philharmonic, Chicago Sym-phony, Concertgebouw, the
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and the Wiener Philharmoniker.
Takes part in the second "Concert for Europe" with the Wiener
Philharmoniker and Mehta, broadcast around the world. First Latin
American tour. Release of the of Rach-maninov's Piano
Concerto no. 2 and Paganini Rhapsody with Gergiev 2006 Concerts
with the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Salonen), Philadelphia
Orchestra (Eschen-bach), Deutsches Symphonie Orchester (Nagano),
Israel Philharmonic (Mehta), Vienna Symphony Orchestra (Luisi),
Berlin Staatskapelle (Barenboim), New York Philharmonic, and
Berliner Philharmoniker (Mehta). Concerts at the Verbier, La
Roque d'Anthéron and Salzburg festivals and the London Proms.
Recitals throughout the USA, Europe, and Far East. First "Artist
in Residence" with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Performs at the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup 2006 in
Munich's Olympia Stadium. Due to his enormous popularity with
children, the renowned piano house Steinway & Sons creates the
"Lang Lang Steinway". His album Memory, with works by Mozart,
Chopin, Schumann, and Liszt, climbs to no. 1 of Billboard's
classical charts. Dragon Songs, a full-length docu-mentary, is
filmed during his China concert tour and released on DVD; the
music is avail-able on CD. Two soundtracks are released on CD:
The Banquet, with music by Tan Dun, and The Painted Veil, with
music by Alexandre Desplat (Los Angeles Film Critics Associa-tion
Award, César Award, 2006; Golden Globe 2007) 2007 Numerous
appearances with the world's leading orchestras, performing
concertos ranging from Brahms and Beethoven to Prokofiev and
Grieg. Special highlights include concerts with the Berliner
Philharmoniker at the Salzburg Easter Festival, with the Wiener
Philhar-moniker in Carnegie Hall, and open-air concerts with the
Gulbenkian Orchestra and Law-rence Foster in Germany. Recitals
throughout North America, Europe and the Far East. Fes-tival
appearances in Salzburg, Ravinia, Verbier, Schleswig-Holstein,
and La Roque d'Anthéron. In the autumn, he plays ten different
piano concertos in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the
Beijing International Festival and the 20th anniversary of his
concert de-but. Other special events are the world-premiere
performance of a new composition by Nigel Hess about the life of
the Queen Mother in the presence of Prince Charles, and a
per-formance at the Classical Brit Awards ceremony in London's
Royal Albert Hall. Release of his first Beethoven , the
Piano Concertos nos. 1 and 4 with the Orchestre de Paris under
Eschenbach 2008 April sees the world-premiere performance of a
new piano concerto by Tan Dun with the New York Philharmonic.
Numerous appearances in Canada, the USA and Europe with
or-chestras including the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland
Orchestra, Staatskapelle Berlin and Wiener Philharmoniker.
Highlights of the summer include a tour with the Philadelphia
Symphony Orchestra and Eschenbach in China, concerts at the
Salzburg and Ruhr Piano Festivals, with the New York Philharmonic
in Central Park and the Los Angeles Philhar-monic at the
Hollywood , and a recital at the BBC Proms. Residency with
the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in December. Lang Lang also
gives recitals throughout Europe, the USA and China. Lang Lang's
autobiography "Journey of a Thousand Miles" will be published in
summer. Release of the of Chopin's Piano Concertos nos.
1 & 2 with the Wiener Philharmoniker under the direction of Zubin
Mehta in autumn 8/2008
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