Best of Lang Lang (2 CD set)

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Best of Lang Lang (2 CD set)
Lang Lang (piano)

[ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Thursday 2 September 2010

Lang Lang, at 28, is a phenomenon unique in the world today: "His enormous variety of colour and texture, of dynamic range and rhetorical gesture, is dazzling. He can sing and sustain a line, knows where to subordinate accompanying figures, and achieves a huge range of articulation." comments the BBC Music Magazine. The Chicago Tribune hailed him as "the greatest, most exciting piano talent in years"

This 2-CD set presents a new collection of Lang Lang's best Deutsche Grammophon recordings - Over 130 minutes of piano music full of virtuosity and emotion sure to please Lang Lang's fans and all music lovers alike.

Tracks:

CD 1
1. FRANZ LISZT: Liebestraum, S. 541 no. 3 Poco allegro, con affetto
2. FRANZ LISZT, arr. Vladimir Horowitz: Hungarian Rhapsody in C sharp minor no. 2 Lento a capriccio
3. FREDERIC CHOPIN: Etude in E major op. 10 no. 3 Lento ma non troppo
4. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto no. 1 in C major op. 15 3. Rondo )
5. WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Piano Sonata no. 10 in C major K. 330 2. Andante cantabile
6. FREDERIC CHOPIN: Piano Concerto no. 2 in F minor op. 21 2. Larghetto
7. ERIK SATIE: Gnossienne no. 1
8. SERGEI RACHMANINOV: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini op. 43 Variation XVIII
9. FREDERIC CHOPIN: Nocturne in D flat major op. 27 no. 2 Lento sostenuto
10. PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto no. 1 in B flat minor op. 23 3. Allegro con fuoco
11. ROBERT SCHUMANN: Kinderszenen op. 15 7. Trumerei
12. SERGEI RACHMANINOV: Prelude in G minor op. 23 no. 5 Alla marcia

CD 2
1. L? WENCHENG (1898-1981: Autumn Moon on a Calm Lake
2. DENG YUXIAN (1906-1944): Spring Wind
3. MIKE OLDFIELD (*1953): Music of the Spheres Harbinger
4. DU MINGXIN (*1928): Straw Hat Dance
5. ALEXANDRE DESPLAT (*1961): The Painted Veil River Waltz TAN DUN (*1957) The Banquet
6. Waiting
7. In the Bamboo Forest
8. Lost Days
9. Exile to Snowy West
(with Shanghai Symphony Orchestra • Tan Dun)
10. Yellow River Piano Concerto: 2. Ode to the Yellow River
11. SCHILLER: Time for Dreams
12. ZHU JIANER (*1922): Happy Times
NIGEL HESS (*1957): Piano Concerto
13. (1) The Smile
14. (2) The Love
15. (3) The Duty