Live in Vienna (2 CDs plus DVD)

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ALBENIZ / BEETHOVEN / CHOPIN / PROKOFIEV
Live in Vienna (2 CDs plus DVD)
Lang Lang (piano)

[ Sony Classical / 3 CD/DVD ]

Release Date: Monday 20 September 2010

"Clearly everyone is having a ball and, make no mistake, doubting Thomases should take time off to listen to a major talent." Editor's Choice Gramophone October 2010

"the first movement of his Appassionata is gracefully conceived, and he brings a properly Beethovenian authority to the variations of the slow movement, before seguing gracefully into whirlwind finale...But the chief appeal of this CD lies in the fact that it's pulsatingly live...Lang Lang dares, and wins" (BBC Music)

"...let me say at once that the youthful excess and rampant exhibitionism of much of Lang Lang's earliest work is today transformed into playing which for the greater part is as stylish and perceptive as it is brilliant...Clearly everyone is having a ball and, make no mistake, doubting Thomases should take time off to listen to a major talent." (Gramophone Editor's Choice Oct 2010)

"He is intense and focused in the "Appassionata", sharp and lively in Beethoven's early C major sonata. His Albéniz is thrillingly colourful, his Prokofiev vivid and pungent...the technical command is peerless and the emotional warmth envelops us. He is surely the Horowitz of our generation." (The Observer)

Tracks:

Albéniz:
Evocación (from Iberia, book 1)
El puerto (from Iberia, book 1)
Féte-dieu à Séville from Iberia

Beethoven:
Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major, Op. 2 No. 3
Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 'Appassionata'

Chopin:
Étude Op. 25 No. 1 in A flat major 'Aeolian Harp'
Polonaise No. 6 in A flat major, Op. 53 'Héroïque'
Waltz No. 2 in A flat major 'Grande Valse Brillante', Op. 34 No. 1

Prokofiev:
Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat major, Op. 83

DVD:
Concert highlights
Promotional Trailer