Lang Lang Live at Carnegie Hall
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Composer: Recorded SoundComposer: Robert Schumann
Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
Composer: Franz [Vienna] Schubert
Composer: Dun Tan
Composer: Frederic Chopin
Composer: Franz Liszt
Composer: Unspecified
Composer: Lang / Lang, Guo-Ren Lang
Performer: Lang Lang
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-03-02
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
- Applause
- Abegg Variations, Op.1
- 1. Allegro [Piano Sonata in C, H.XVI No.50]
- 2. Adagio [Piano Sonata in C, H.XVI No.50]
- 3. Allegro molto [Piano Sonata in C, H.XVI No.50]
- 1. Allegro con fuoco ma non troppo [Fantasy in C Major "Wanderer"]
- 2. Adagio [Fantasy in C Major "Wanderer"]
- 3. Presto [Fantasy in C Major "Wanderer"]
- 4. Allegro [Fantasy in C Major "Wanderer"]
- 1. Missing Moon [Eight Memories In Watercolour, Op.1]
- 2. Beans [Eight Memories In Watercolour, Op.1]
- 03. Herdboy's Song [Eight Memories In Watercolour, Op.1]
- 4. Blue Nun [Eight Memories In Watercolour, Op.1]
- 7. Red Wilderness [Eight Memories In Watercolour, Op.1]
- 5. Ancient Burial [Eight Memories In Watercolour, Op.1]
- 6. Floating Clouds [Eight Memories In Watercolour, Op.1]
- 8. Sunrain [Eight Memories In Watercolour, Op.1]
- Nocturne No.8 In D Flat Op.27 No.2
- Reminiscences de Don Juan, S. 418 (after Mozart)
- 7. Tr=E4umerei [Kinderszenen, Op.15]
- Horses (after pieces by Huang Hai Hwai, Chen Rao Xing and Shen Li Qun) - Arr. by Lang Lang and Lang Guo-ren
- Liebestraum No.3 in A flat, S.541 No.3
Music reviews of Lang Lang Live at Carnegie Hall
Music Review: I wish I could give this a 0 star rating
Rating: 1 Stars
I agree with all the negative reviews on this list about this disc and Lang Lang in general. I was deeply disappointed with his performances of the Tchaikovsky/Mendelssohn and Rachmaninov concertos. Then, my friend asked me to listen to his Islamey, exclaiming that it was one of the most remarkable performances he'd ever heard. I remember clearly thinking how boring it was and had to have my friend listen to the incredible performance by Ogdon and, even more brazen account (remember this piece ismeant to be a showpiece, and not the pseudo-intellectual piece Lang Lang thinks it is) by Barere. Although I'm no fan of Islamey, I find it very easy to discern the difference between mediocrity (Lang Lang) and brilliance. I got a chance to listen to some of this disc couple of months ago, and boy, he continues to disappoint.
Regarding all those who say he's the next Horowitz or Richter blah blah, I suspect that these people don't know history. Another fundamental mistake they make is that they form conclusions without comparing to other performances. Just compare his interpretations of the abegg variations and the Wanderer fantasy to those by Kissin or Richter. You'll quickly notice how pedantic and uninspiring Lang Lang's accounts are. Boring as I don't know what! Likewise, try comparing his Tchaikovsky's 1st or Rach 2nd to those by Horowitz, Argerich, and Freire, and Richter, Kissin, Cliburn, Ashkenazy, Jando and countless others. Lang Lang sounds absolutely amateurish in comparison. Memory can be very fleeting and the only reliable thing is to compare side by side. His mediocrity just jumps out and grabs you.
I'm willing to admit that my main objections to Lang Lang's musicality is subjective in nature. Afterall, taste is taste. While I find Lang Lang's tone terribly uneven and dull, with his interpretations without life, with his general stance of "let's not mess things up here" attitude, others may indeed find him exciting. However, I will not concede that his technique is somehow "one of the greatest." To this day, I cannot figure out how one can consider his technique to be great. Just sit in a dark room, close your eyes and dissect his articulation, finger work, phrasing, octaves, and you'll notice that no way in hell does his technique measure up to those by Michelangeli, Hamelin, Barere, Berman, and Horowitz, or even to those by Leslie Howard, Kissin, Zayas, Argerich, Gould, Gavrilov, Cziffra, Kocsis, and Pollini. To me Lang Lang's technique is dead average, nothing special, and for those who think his technique is one of the greatest in history or at least one of the greatest around, perhaps more listening and studying is required. Sure, Clint Eastwood is a solid film maker, but to say to me that he is in the league with Orson Welles, Jean Renoir, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Alfred Hitchcock would lead me believe that more film study of the classics is in order.
In conclusion, Lang Lang (and this disc set) is a joke. People tend to think that because an artist is heavily promoted by a large record company like DG, then he must be good. This effect can be very powerful and, now in this era, often very wrong. If classical music continues down this path of promoting dead average pianists, then we are all going to suffer.
Description of Lang Lang Live at Carnegie Hall
Two CD set in a slimline double jewel box. Small drill point mark on the back of jewel box does not appear to cut art. Stickered: "Brilliant" - Time Magazine / A Landmark Recording.Classical CDs
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