Recorded live at Carnegie Hall, New York 2003
Lang Lang plays with sensational cleanliness, often at outrageously high speeds, making even the opaque textures of Schumann's "Abegg" Variations glitter iridescently. His command in Liszt's demonic Don Juan Fantasy is jaw-dropping, his Haydn immaculate... Phenomenal playing...
Classic FM, London, May 2004
... deeply musical and touching . . .
The New York Times, 29 February 2004
Lang Lang gives technically brilliant performances . . . this disc is a portrait of a promising young pianist . . .
Billboard, New York, 6 March 2004
Lang Lang's ability talent to carry away concert audiences with his visible joy in performing is captured now in outstanding picture and sound quality.
Beside the recital the DVD offers interviews with Lang Lang about Carnegie Hall and the repertoire selected, playing Haydn, Schubert, Tan Dun and Liszt as well as his childhood, youth and his approach to music in general. Further bonus elements are a picture gallery as a slide show, music clips of his debut album for Deutsche Grammophon with Tchaikovsky's and Mendelssohn's first piano concertos recorded with Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and DG's standard bonus features: DVD trailer & catalogue. |
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