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Sun-Sentinel: Music One of the most eagerly anticipated events is the belated South Florida debutof the Chinese pianist lang lang, which will take place Tuesday. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/entertainment/music/sfl-shlj7mar07,0,4250947.column
Extractions: March brings South Florida audiences a veritable cornucopia of keyboard riches. The Miami International Piano Festival opened last night and continues through Sunday, with several intriguing events. Next week brings two more stellar keyboard artists when Emanuel Ax and Lang Lang make back-to-back appearances at West Palm Beach's Kravis Center. Acclaimed Beethoven and Schubert interpreter Stephen Kovacevich will come to town March 28 in a special event sponsored by Friends of Chamber Music of Miami.
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Extractions: Telarc CD-80582 DDD 71:48 The "Rach Three" and the Chinese encore were recorded in front of an audience in Royal Albert Hall at a Proms Concert on August 22, 2001. The Scriabin was recorded on October 20 of that same year at Oberlin College in Ohio under what seem to have been studio conditions. Lang Lang hardly can be accused of overusing the sustaining pedal, and this is particularly noticeable in the Scriabin. The pianist wants us to hear everything, and he relies on his legato playing to prevent the music from sounding dry, even skeletal. Cleverly, he has selected ten etudes that give a portrait in brief of the composer's entire career: he plays the popular C-sharp minor etude from Op. 2, six etudes from Op. 8 (including the famous D-sharp minor etude), two from Op. 42, and one from Op. 65. Lang Lang understands that Scriabin is not Rachmaninoff, and these performances, particularly of the later etudes, while romantic, are angular and not innocent of emotional disturbance. I'm happy Lang Lang is a Telarc artist, and I hope he is given the opportunity to ride more than just warhorses. This recording is available in the SACD format as well: SACD-60582 Raymond Tuttle Search Reviews Back to the Review Index
Extractions: Already at the young age of 16 Lang Lang has shown himself to be an artist of maturity and depth of performance well beyond his years. He began piano studies at the age of three at the Music College in Shen Yang under Professor Zhu Ya Fen. In 1993 was accepted into the China Central Music Conservatory. Excelling in all aspects of his classes, in 1997 he was accepted into the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he currently studies with Gary Graffman. Go to Top Back to Season Calendar
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Extractions: Press Democrat Santa Rosa, California January 10, 2000 Symphony Turns Back Clock During 2000 Debut By Diane Peterson Staff Writer The Santa Rosa Symphony presented a vibrant program of early 20th-century music Saturday, jolting listeners out of the mid-winter blahs with a minimalist Webern work, splashy Stravinsky ballet and a lush piano concerto by Rachmaninoff. Like the recent remake of the Disney classic "Fantasia," the concert brought the colorful contours of contemporary music clearly into focus - without ever suggesting the direction it is headed now that we're on the other side of the 21st century. Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3, played after intermission by the 17-year-old Chinese pianist Lang Lang, was the highlight of the evening, evoking a unanimous and enthusiastic standing ovation for the ease and power of the pianist's execution. This dynamic young artist, who started playing piano at age 3, obviously loves to caress the keys, and he is able to spin out unbelievably supple phrases that flow naturally from his long fingers. His playing exhibits an abundance of expression - a key to pulling off this ultra-romantic, Russian concerto - complemented by a rock-solid foundation of technique.
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Extractions: Bruce Adolphe's "name that composer" piano quiz Live in Studio 4A: Lang Lang 2002 was a very good year for young Chinese-American pianist Lang Lang. He toured Europe and the U.S.; played on live television in Japan; made his debut with the New York Philharmonic; played a week-long residency at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago; and made a CD recording of Rachmaninoff's Third. In March of that same year, Lang Lang presented the following recital in NPR's Studio 4A.
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Classical Action Scrapbook On April 7, the extraordinary 19year-old pianist lang lang peformed hisfourth concert for Classical Action. In Reading, Pennsylvania; St. http://www.classicalaction.org/home/scrapbook8.htm
Extractions: 2002 EVENTS In 2002, Classical Action presented its first private benefit house concert series in New York City featuring Leading Ladies of Opera. Soprano Dawn Upshaw (with pianist Stephen Prutsman) launched the series on April 10, at the home of Deirdre and Hamish Norton. On June 10, the second concert was hosted by Judy and Steven Gluckstern and featured soprano Sondra Radvanovsky and mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick (with pianist Anthony Manoli). Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham (with pianist Brian Zeger) performed at the third and final concert on September 24, at the home of Wheelock Whitney III. Each of the leading ladies showcased her immense talents while performing compositions ranging from Rachmaninoff and Verdi, to Handel, Rorem and Weill. The experience of hearing these artists perform this repertoire in such exceptional settings made it all the more memorable. Heres to the Ladies!! Photo Credit: Dan Porges On March 12, world-renowned cellist Lynn Harrell both charmed and inspired the audience of more than 65 people at a house concert in Wisconsin benefitting Madison's AIDS Network and Classical Action. The concert was hosted by James Hottmann and Keith Rudolph in their welcoming Madison home. Mr. Harrell and pianist Victor Asunción treated patrons to a riveting program of Bach, Schubert and Chopin, as well as arrangements of some of the great opera arias associated with the legendary Metropolitan Opera baritone Mack Harrell, who happens to have been Lynn's father.
Radio International China Translate this page Von Kindheit an erfolgreich Der junge chinesische pianist lang lang. von. langlang ist ein 20jähriger pianist und für sein Alter sehr erfolgreich. http://germany.cri.com.cn/germany/2001/Jul/38696.htm
Extractions: Homepage Nachrichten Aktuelle Berichte Kochrezept 2001/07/23 08:50 GMT von Lang Lang war 3 Jahre alt, als er zum ersten Mal mit dem Klavierspiel in Berührung kam. Das war Anfang der 80er Jahre, also zu Beginn der Reform und Öffnung in China. Damals führten die meisten Chinesen noch ein eher bescheidenes Leben. Ein Klavier galt damals als Luxusobjekt. Lang Guoren ist ein strenger Vater im chinesischen Sinne. Er lobte Lang Lang niemals und unterdrückte selbst dann jegliche Gefühlsäußerungen, wenn sein Sohn mal wieder vom Erfolg gekrönt wurde. Der Vater engagierte den besten Lehrer für seinen Sohn und kontrollierte ihn auch sehr streng bei den Übungen. Mit Erfolg: Bereits mit elf Jahren nahm Lang Lang auf eigene Kosten am 4. internationalen Klavierwettbewerb im deutschen Ettlingen teil und errang den ersten Platz. Zudem wurde ihm ein Sonderpreis für hervorragende künstlerische Leistungen verliehen. Zwei Jahre später begann Lang Lang eine Welttournee. Im Mai 1996 gab er ein Solo-Konzert in Tokio, im Juli und August Gastspiele in den USA, und im November das Abschiedkonzert im zentralen Musikkonservatorium Beijing, wo er zuvor studiert hatte. 1997, mit 16 Jahren, wurde Lang Lang mit hervorragenden Studienleistungen von der bekannten amerikanischen Curtis-Musikhochschule aufgenommen. Sein Lehrer war der Rektor dieser Hochschule, der bekannte Musiker Gary Graffman. Während seines Studiums gab Lang Lang weltweit mehr als 200 Gastspiele. Und er hat inzwischen mit zahlreichen weltbekannten Sinfornie-Orchestern zusammengearbeitet. Viele Musikgiganten der Welt haben Lang Langs virtuoses Klavierspiel gewürdigt. Der junge chinesische Pianist sagt, für ihn sei es natürlich ein Glück, mit weltbekannten Orchestern und Musikern zusammenarbeiten zu können:
Lang Lang Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 By Karl Lozier basis of this recording, I'll go on record as predicting lang lang will become itwas with their pairing on another Rachmaninoff CD with pianist Dmitri Alexeev http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/music/0902/rachmaninoff.htm
Extractions: During a recent three-way comparison between different DVD and CD players this disc is one of three I wound up listening to for relaxation between sessions. It was never used in the listening sessions and I listened to it at a relaxingly moderate level. I consistently came away feeling refreshed as if I had been listening to a particularly lovely live performance from a relatively distant balcony seat. Sublimely subtle in almost everyway, I knew that this disc and Lang Lang's performance could not stand comparison with my long time favorite recording by Byron Janis with Dorati conducting on a particularly fine Mercury LP. Surprisingly it turned out to be a close call. The triumvirate of Janis, Dorati and Mercury results in an overall sensation of a bit more power and drive in some passages; lets call it slightly more extroverted. Lang Lang's performance is simply outstanding. This great talent was still a teenager when this recording, the second for Telarc, was made. On the basis of this recording, I'll go on record as predicting Lang Lang will become one of the greatest pianists of the first half of the twenty first century. There seemed to be no shortcomings or weaknesses in his performance of the concerto and his playing in the lyrical or melodic sections was particularly luminous and downright enchanting. The recording holds up well even at rather high playback levels. The orchestral sections blend together almost perfectly with no artificial highlighting and the strings were never overbearing and at times almost subdued. Here conductor Yuri Temirkanov and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic's collaboration is near ideal as it was with their pairing on another Rachmaninoff CD with pianist Dmitri Alexeev doing the
Extractions: By Margaret Regan The 20-year-old pianist Lang Lang makes a triumphant return to Tucson this weekend for two solo concerts. Since September 2000, when he played here as an astonishing but relatively unknown 17-year-old, Lang has tallied up an extraordinary series of successes. He made a sold-out debut at Carnegie Hall (April 2001), played in Beijing with the Philadelphia Orchestra (June 2001), had a week-long, sold-out series of concerts at the Ravinia Festival outside Chicago (July 2002) and last fall played with the New York Philharmonic in the Big Apple. In between, he's found time for assorted tours of Asia and Europe, and played with leading orchestras from the Cleveland to Baltimore to the London Philharmonic. His Tucson concerts are "really an incredible opportunity," said Randy Spalding, a board member of the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, presenter of the Lang Lang concerts. "People are saying he's the greatest pianist alive in the world. People are saying he's the new Horowitz. We're really lucky to have him here in Tucson." His Sunday afternoon Piano and Friends concert is already sold out, but tickets are still available for the Saturday evening concert at Leo Rich Theatre (as of press time). The Saturday concert follows a gala benefit dinner at the Manning House, at which Lang Lang's father, Guo-ren Lang, will play the traditional Chinese violin. Ticket buyers can go to both the dinner and the concert, or just the concert.
Tucson Weekly: Sino-The-Times (September 21 - September 27, 2000) IN 1998, 16YEAR-OLD Chinese pianist lang lang burst on the American music sceneby nailing Beethoven's sensational Choral Fantasy with the Baltimore Symphony. http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/2000-09-21/review3.html
Extractions: By Christine Wald-Hopkins BY CHRISTINE WALD-HOPKINS IN 1998, 16-YEAR-OLD Chinese pianist Lang Lang burst on the American music scene by nailing Beethoven's sensational Choral Fantasy with the Baltimore Symphony. The young man Chicago Tribune critic John von Rhein calls "the most exciting young keyboard talent" he's encountered has been feted by the fates ever since. Sunday at TCC's Leo Rich Theater, Lang Lang opens the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music's sixth Piano and Friends season. Lang Lang doesn't come to the stage untested. He has studied piano since he was threefirst at the Music College and the Central Music Conservatory in China; now, as the student of Gary Graffman at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He's won international prizes and performed across Asia; he's played with the Houston Symphony, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Moscow Philharmonic, the Boston Chamber Orchestra, the Sendai Symphony of Japan, the National Symphony Orchestra of Singapore and the National Symphony of China. In December he will make his St. Petersburg, Russia debut, and in April he will make his Carnegie Hall debut. Remarkable fortune has fueled his talent. Lang Lang was in Chicago last August to audition for the following year's Ravinia Festival when headliner Andre Watts was forced to cancel his appearance at the Chicago Symphony's final Ravinia season gala concert. With two days' notice, Lang Lang stepped up and played the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1, and dazzled audience and critics alike. In March of this year, Lang Lang substituted for ailing Richard Goode at Chicago's Symphony Center, and once more wowed critics and audience.
Extractions: THOSE who want to experience first-rate excitement in music should better take note of the big events this month. The Vienna Boys Choir was back in Manila last week, but the bigger event is the return engagement of the New York Philharmonic at the CCP on Oct. 18 and 19, with Chinese pianist Lang Lang as the soloist in Rach 2 (again!), courtesy of Citibank. Another big event not to be missed is the Toyota Classics concert on Oct. 25 at the Meralco Theater, featuring the Cadaques Chamber Orchestra of Spain with two for midable soloists: Filipino tenor Gary del Rosario and Spanish guitarist Jose Maria Gallardo del Rey. While previous Toyota concerts were free and open to Toyota dealers and clients, the concert this time is a fund-raising concert for Tabang Mindanao III. The Inquirer is among the supporters.
Extractions: One of the best things about January is that the classical music scene revs up again after the mandatory December slowdown for the requisite Nutcracker-Messiah-Caroling concerts. Several big names and plenty of new compositions fill the calendar for the next three months. Arcadi Volodos, Salvatore Licitra and Lang Lang are among the big-name international performers heading to the Bay Area. Here's the month-by-month rundown of some of the events on the always-crowded classical calendar: January Beginner alert! ``Madama Butterfly'' opens for five performances at San Francisco Opera. While not as taut as some of Puccini's other works, this is ideal for a first night at the opera. Bring Kleenex: Even a mere perfunctory rendition can leave you with a lump in your throat for the last hour. Symphony San Jose principal cellist Peter Gelfand has organized, produced and will take part in a concert honoring the late Josef Gingold, one of the top violin teachers of the 20th century. Violinist Yuval Yaron will be joined by the San Jose Chamber Players for the concert at Le Petit Trianon.
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Extractions: Lang Lang, the 19-year-old Chinese pianist who was making his subscription series debut, enjoys throwing everything he has at the listener. That's one reason he scored such a sensation at his local debut in 1999 at Ravinia where he substituted at the eleventh hour for Andre Watts. Since then, he has become a festival mainstay, appearing twice more with the CSO as well as in recital. This summer he will share a residency with his chief mentor, Christoph Eschenbach. Worries that a young pianist so sure of himself, so brimming with the joy of making music, would suffer from a certain lack of interpretive discipline were not entirely allayed by his reading of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 on Thursday. Some thought he pulled the music around recklessly. Others found his emotive swooning at the keyboard distracting. Lang, it would appear, has every gift save the gift of restraint. But if you closed your eyes and listened, you heard a stunning performance. The soloist's "Rach 2" amounted to a wild musical thrill ride that challenged guest conductor Manfred Honeck and the orchestra to hold on tight. No pianist today takes such liberties in this melody-drenched showpiece, or brings them off this well. His big tone reaching deep into the keys, Lang thundered and wept. He sped up, slowed down, bent entire paragraphs with a generous rubato bordering on distortion. His Adagio was a lyrical reverie in slow-mo. All this with piston fingers that could do anything.
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Extractions: What's the simplest thing you've never learned to do? "Whistle." Any superstitions you indulge? "I continue to reason with academics." Cynthia Kuper-Rockman age: 29 Nanotechnologist; President, Versilant Nanote Technologies Lang Lang age: 19 Pianist L Who's the smartest person you know? "Tiger Woods. We've met, and he's my model for the musical world." Why do you live here? "Because I study at the world's greatest institute of music, near the great Philadelphia Orchestra." What do you fear? "Airplanes have been scary. I want world peace badly." Paul Levy age: 54 Executive director, Center City District What's the simplest thing you've never learned to do? "Hook up the dvd player." What do you fear? "Alzheimer's disease, which took my mother in her late 80s." Stacy Levy age: 40 Artist What's the dumbest thing you've ever done? "I didn't travel enough when I was younger and could sleep on the floor more happily." What do you fear? "Water contamination." sock, sock, shoe, shoe? Or sock, shoe, sock, shoe? "Bare feet."
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