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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4 from: Deutsche Grammophon  List Price: $16.98 Your Price: $14.99 You Save: $1.99 (12%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0028947764274 Label: Deutsche Grammophon Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Deutsche Grammophon Release Date: May 08, 2007 Studio: Deutsche Grammophon Sales Rank: 15330 MPN: 000872502 Disc 1: Related Items:
Editorial Review: Album Description: Lang Lang delivers his first-ever Beethoven recording, a stunning reading of the extensive Concerto no. 4 and the jubilant Concerto no. 1. Even though he has performed this repertoire extensively in concert, Lang Lang waited for the perfect moment and the perfect team to record his first pair of concertos from these milestones of piano repertoire When Lang Lang embarked on his international career, Christoph Eschenbach became one of his first and most enthusiastic proponents - and a mentor and close friend ever since, Eschenbach was the ideal collaborator for Lang Lang's first Beethoven recording. Nimbly supported by Eschenbach's superb Orchestre de Paris, with its tradition of having been the first orchestra ever in France to perform music by Beethoven, Lang Lang's performance gives further proof as to why he is one of today's most acclaimed pianists Amazon.com: What a beautiful recording! Perhaps the most exciting thing about Lang Lang's playing is that when he plays softly and lyrically, he doesn't sound as if he's holding back; when he opts to stomp and yell, it sounds equally natural. The First Concerto is played with lightness and bounce in the outer movements and is as tuneful as imaginable in the stunning second movement's Largo. The Fourth Concerto is a whole other matter – mature Beethoven – and Lang rises easily to the occasion, playing with potency and handsome tone. The first movement makes us sit and admire his skill, and he is poetic and sensitive in the second movement. It would have been easy for him to run away with the final movement in a blaze of virtuosity, but he sticks to its classical outlines. These are superb performances, and the sonics are gloriously rich. --Robert Levine Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A Limited Interpretation of BeethovenI've always felt that Lang Lang should restrict himself to Mozart and early Beethoven, and this recording of the Beethoven concertos convinces me further of this. His recording of the first concerto is fine; he gives a real sense of the classical period through a bold approach. However, when this same approach is applied to the fourth concerto, it comes across as raw and bland. Lang Lang has no depth of mood; he shifts between the only three colors he knows without bothering to connect passages ... Read More Rating:  - My Lang Lang weekend, Pt. 2- No disappointment here!I received this disc of Beethoven piano concertos by Lang Lang on the same day as his Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2; Paganini Rhapsody, and listened to both for the first time this weekend. Like many, I was disappointed by the Rachmaninov Piano Ct. No. 2 with Valery Gergiev, but this compact disc, featuring Ludwig Von Beethoven's Piano Cts. Nos. 1 & 4, with the young Chinese star and Christoph Eschenbach directing the Orchestre de Paris, is a pleasing success that vividly shows that abundant ... Read More Rating:  - The image is bigger than the music.Yes, I feel that the Lang Lang image has overtaken the musicality. But I must give the young man some credit here; he has taken on a couple of very complex cadenzas, and he does play the pieces quite well. Beethoven certainly does run the gamut of emotions, and the joy is definitely missing in these performances. Lang Lang turns the listener's attention to himself with exaggerated rubatos and dynamics, but the technique is clean and smooth. When I started my classical music label, I learned to ... Read More Rating:  - A different interpretation of Beethoven Music has many faces and many possible interpretations. I was curious to hear Lang Lang, a young, extremely talented piano virtuoso, in his performance of Beethoven. This recording of Lang Lang is a contribution of a young person with a great talent to the world of music. I have found, firstly, that I did not like the orchestra. It was unimaginative, heavy and too loud at times. The booming sound was unpleasant to ears. Often, the sound was not well defined and was blurry. The orchestra was, ... Read More Rating: - Only an opinion, but a dissenting oneHere, I diverge from most of the reviewers. Lang Lang's performance strikes me as marvelously balanced and effective. The Concerto No. 1 is performed here with youthful elan and high spirits in the outer movements: clean articulation and a nice bounce. The first movement cadenza is unfamiliar to me. It is not the rather perfunctory cadenza Beethoven wrote out for his pupil Archduke Rudolf (which I'm not sure Beethoven used when he himself performed the concerto; he probably improvised on the spot). ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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