Lang Lang - Lang Lang Live in Vienna (2 CD)
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Artist: Lang LangPerformer: Lang Lang
Composer: Beethoven
Composer: Chopin
Composer: Prokofiev
Composer: Albeniz
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2010-08-24
Music Label: SONY MASTERWORKS
Product features:
- LANG LANG LANG LANG LIVE IN VIENA (2CD)
Music CD 1
- Piano Sonata No. 3 in C Major, Op. 2; I. Allegro con brio
- Piano Sonata No. 3 in C Major, Op. 2; II. Adagio
- Piano Sonata No. 3 in C Major, Op. 2; III. Scherzo (Allegro)
- Piano Sonata No. 3 in C Major, Op. 2; IV. Allegro assai 5. Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata"; I. Allegro assai
- Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata"; II. Andante con moto
- Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata"; III. Allegro ma non troppo
- Iberia, Book I; I. Evocaci�³n
- Iberia, Book I; II. El puerto
- Iberia, Book I; III. F�ªte-dieu � Seville
- Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83; I. Allegro inquieto - Andantino - Allegro inquieto - Andantino - Allegro inquieto
- Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83; II. Andante caloroso - Poco pi�¹ animato - Pi�¹ largamente - un poco agitato - Tempo I
- Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83; III. Precipitato
- Ã?Â?tude Op. 25, No. 1 in A-Flat Major
- Polonaise No. 6 in A-Flat Major, Op. 53 "Heroic"
- Grand Valse Brillante No. 2, Op. 34 No. 1 in A-Flat Major
Music reviews of Lang Lang Live in Vienna (2 CD)
Music Review: Lang Lang rates far down a long list of musicians - and pianists
Rating: 1 Stars
The ex third-world seems to be neglecting its sublime and
exquisite strengths in high visual art at present.
Where are the many masters of Chinese landscapes that we should see
emerging from a Billion people? Instead there seems some
ill-conceived attempt to embrace major-league musical performance,
although the players have not yet graduated from the high minors.
Contrary to what is often said, that LL is rated on his
looks - most of the musicians from the (previous) third world
can easily be identified by sound, NOT sight. Anyone who thinks
LL is hot stuff, is thinking about the _keyboard_ primarily,
and not about the music. It is the difFerence between a
student/apprentice and a storyteller.
The unwashed public has always liked attractive, glamorous,
and loud and fast in the case of piano players -witness Moreau & Liszt
- the first modern musical superstars/storytellers in several ways.
But notice also , they were very accomplished composers.....
Consider the implications.
I neither hear not get the slightest sense of _warmth_ either,
nor of the sublime phrasing that is the hallmark of major-league
musicians.... He does love to show off his dynamic range though -
unfortunately he seems to do so at very inappropriate points in the
piece. A sense of thematic unity is invariably missing.
Just on example of dozens: Listen to LL's rendition of the Appassionata
versus that of Arthur Rubinstein, or of Brendel, or even of the less-known
Hans Richter-Hauser. Thematic unity, and a _story_ are laid before
us when all those but LL plays that piece and most of his other
Beethoven repetoire. He does do justice to beethoven's
superficial ceremonial military music though....
when I hear LL. It is as if he is a great actor and showman,
rather than a musician, again. It is clear he may love music, and
has been working on it since childhood....but there is an electricity
and love, and connection, and involvement with the music - rather
than with the _audience_ that is missing.
I predict it will be a good century at least before the ex-3rd world
learns and conveys the soul of western classical high art music.
I won't waste a minute, or spend a cent on LL, when there
are several dozen relatively neglected pianist-musicians,
who are truly major league. Nakayama in the SF Bay area
alone, impresses one by his insights into the music....but
seems to offered only 2nd rate venues: He is not attractive enough.
Consider: it took a country of a BILLION people to produce ONE
LL, whereas a single very small semitic tribe has completely mastered
all genres of western high musical art for over two centuries.
(Often against high odds in the process: Genocide, for one...)
Other countries in Europe have similar track records, especially
in the sublimity of their their composers. I need not mention
their names, they are so obvious.
The US has much to be proud of in the art form, but we still have
only rarely reached the level of greatness of the various European
schools of composition and performance.... our Bernsteins, Copelands,
Harris's, Gershwins, Basie's, and Brubeck's etc. seem to becoming
more rare, mores the pity.
There's only some reassurance we have from our never-ending monopoly on
owning the best of musical theater. (And I don't include the often ugly,
hackneyed, tine-deaf, and flawed rhythms of our new composers, or the
Brits relatively newer composers for the theater. They seem to have skipped
musucial theory that suggest that real music has all three: HARMONY, MELODY, AND RHYTHM.
There is a ray of light in the best of the best "sound track" composers -
a separate story. I liked "Cats" enormously, but I predict that its
sentimentality will be its downfall in the long run...
Life is short, with no time to dally on less than the sublime,
esp in certain realms....
Description of Lang Lang Live in Vienna (2 CD)
Recorded live in Vienna's legendary Musikverein concert hall, this release represents Lang Lang's second live recorded recital to date after the best-selling "Live at Carnegie Hall" in 2004, which marked his international breakthrough as a recording artist.The program for his Sony debut features Lang Lang's first-ever recording of Beethoven sonatas: The famous "Appassionata", a milestone in the piano literature, is paired with the composer's youthful C major Sonata op. 2, no. 3. Virtuosity of a different order is displayed in Albéniz's impressionistic memories of his native Spain in Book 1 of "Iberia." The program closes with one of Prokofiev's explosive War Sonatas, the revolutionary Seventh Sonata. Finally, to celebrate the Chopin Bicentennial we hear three encores of this Polish genius's most popular works: the "Aeolian Harp" Etude, the "Heroic" Polonaise in A flat major, and the sparkling Grande Valse Brillante No. 2. Featuring over 110 minutes of music on 2 CDs
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