[ Warner Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 20 December 2019
George Li gained international attention in 2015 when he won the silver medal in the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Now he has recorded one of Tchaikovsky's greatest and best-loved works, the Piano Concerto No 1 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Vasily Petrenko. The New York Times has called him a "real revelation" in the work. It is complemented by three solo pieces by Liszt, a composer who featured on his debut Warner Classics recital, judged "a winner" by International Piano magazine.
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23
Liszt: Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este (Années de pèlerinage III, S. 163 No. 4)
Liszt: Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (Années de pèlerinage II, S. 161 No. 5)
Liszt: Réminiscences de "Don Juan" (after Mozart), S. 418