Lang Lang - Live at Ozawa Hall Tanglewood auf CD

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Im August 1999 sprang der damals 18-jährige chinesische Pianist Lang Lang auf dem Ravinia Festival von Chicago für den erkrankten André Watts ein – und sorgte für eine Sensation. Die Chicago Tribune feierte ihn enthusiastisch als eines der größten Klaviertalente der letzten Jahre. Seitdem hat der junge Künstler viele internationale Konzerte gegeben. Am 26. April 2001 wird er sein Debüt an Amerikas erster Konzertadresse, in der Carnegie Hall, geben. Seine CD ist der Mitschnitt eines Konzerts aus der Seiji Ozawa Halle in Tanglewood. Es zeigt die Vielseitigkeit des Pianisten in Live-Atmosphäre: Der Bogen spannt sich von der feinen Delikatesse einer Haydn-Sonate über Brahms, Tschaikowsky und Rachmaninoff bis zu Balakirews Islamey – einem der virtuosesten Soloklavierstücke der gesamten Literatur.

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Since his dramatic and triumphant last-minute appearance at Chicago's Ravinia Festival (filling in for an indisposed Andre Watts) in August, 1999, 18-year-old pianist Lang Lang has burst upon the international musical scene with unparalleled excitement and acclaim. Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as one of the biggest and most exciting keyboard talents encountered in many a year; already performing with the world's leading orchestras; and soon to make his Carnegie Hall debut, this captivating young pianist has shown himself to be an artist of maturity and depth well beyond his years.

Born in 1982 in Shen Yang, China, Lang Lang began studying piano at the age of three. He won the first of numerous awards at age five, when he took first prize in the Shen Yang Piano Competition, after which he gave his first public recital. At age nine, he entered the China Central Music Conservatory where he studied with Professor Zhao Ping-Guo. In 1995 he won first prize in the Second Tchaikovsky International Young Musicians Competition held in Japan, and in 1997 he was accepted into the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he currently studies with Gary Graffman, Director of the Institute.

In August of 2000, amidst a busy schedule of debut appearances (including performances with The Cleveland Orchestra at the Blossom Festival, the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, and the National Symphony Orchestra at Wolf Trap), Telarc captured the first recording to be made by this remarkable young artist, live in recital at Seiji Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood. (concordmusicgroup. com)

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A. Csampai in stereoplay 5 / 01: »Eine hochinteressante, ganz und gar unspektakuläre, aber dennoch spannende Reise eines chinesischen Zauberers durch die Innenwelten der Musik.«