Music : Chopin: The Piano Concertos
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0028947779841
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Deutsche Grammophon
Release Date: September 09, 2008
Sales Rank: 938
Studio: Deutsche Grammophon
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Album Description:
The long-awaited and highly anticipated recording 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 recording of these beloved concertos. Lang Lang has sold over 100,000 CDs in the US alone and will be on tour September to November throughout the US, including many performances of the Chopin concertos.
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The teaming up of the illustrious Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta and Lang Lang are nothing less than starry.
In terms of performance, it is quite another matter. The overall effect of these two works as recorded here is bass-heavy, gloomy and dreamy in turns, which has everything to do with accoustics, and without the requisite sense of direction, which has everything to do with the performers themselves.
One wonders what Lang Lang or Zubin Mehta was trying to say in these ... Read More
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I thought the interpretation was a stirring performance. May be a little too melodramatic for some.
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I had to buy the CD because I went his concert. Although it is not like alive concert, it bring back what I listened in Cleveland. Very happy.
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Bravo ! Bravo !!! Lang Lang is also a Chopin maestro. Phrasing extremely sensitive. A velvet glove masterpiece recording. Only the great Artur Rubinstein could match this style.
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Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1, the second one composed by him, was first performed during one of Chopin's "farewell" concerts before leaving Poland. The treatment by Lang Lang and Mehta in this recording is suitably nostaglic, though in terms of tempo not nearly as fast as most other virtuoso (notably Argerich, Yundi Li).
First Movement:
The opening movement's nearly 4 minutes orchestration sounded languid, but the piece soon gained beautiful momentum once the piano solo entered - and ... Read More
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