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Lang Lang

Lang Lang is a leading figure in classical music today – as a pianist, educator and philanthropist he has become one of the world’s most influential and committed ambassadors for the arts in the 21st century. Equally happy playing for billions of viewers at the 2008 Olympic Opening Ceremony in Beijing or just for a few hundred children in the public schools, he is a master of communicating through music. Heralded by the New York Times as “the hottest artist on the classical music planet”, Lang Lang plays sold-out concerts all over the world. He has formed ongoing collaborations with conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Gustavo Dudamel, Daniel Barenboim and Christoph Eschenbach and performs with all the world’s top orchestras

Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations Deluxe Edition

Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Released: 2020
Track listing: Aria; Variatio 1 a 1 Clav.; Variatio 2 a 1 Clav.; Variatio 3 Canone all’Unisono. a 1 Clav.; Variatio 4 a 1 Clav.; Variatio 5 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav.; Variatio 6 Canone alla Seconda. a 1 Clav.; Variatio 7 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav. Al tempo di Giga; Variatio 8 a 2 Clav.; Variatio 9 Canone alla Terza. a 1 Clav.; Variatio 10 Fughetta. a 1 Clav.; Variatio 11 a 2 Clav.; Variatio 12 Canone alla Quarta. a 1 Clav.; Variatio 13 a 2 Clav.; Variatio 14 a 2 Clav. Variatio 15 Canone alla Quinta. a 1 Clav. Andante; Variatio 16 Ouverture. a 1 Clav.; Variatio 17 a 2 Clav.; Variatio 18 Canone alla Sesta. a 1 Clav.; Variatio 19 a 1 Clav.; Variatio 20 a 2 Clav.; Variatio 21 Canone alla Settima. a 1 Clav.; Variatio 22 a 1 Clav. Alla breve; Variatio 23 a 2 Clav.; Variatio 24 Canone all’Ottava. a 1 Clav.; Variatio 25 a 2 Clav. Adagio; Variatio 26 a 2 Clav.; Variatio 27 Canone alla Nona. a 2 Clav.; Variatio 28 a 2 Clav.; Variatio 29 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav. Variatio 30 Quodlibet. a 1 Clav.; Aria da Capo

Lang Lang: Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations Deluxe Edition

by Nenad Georgievski
November 2, 2020

An early biography of composer J.S. Bach by Johann Nikolaus Forke tells the story of how the famous variations known as Goldberg Variations came to be. Bach received a commission from Count Hermann Carl von Keyserlingk, the insomniac Russian ambassador to the Kingdom of Saxony to compose a set of variations that would help him ward ...

Lang Lang - Bach: Goldberg Variations

by C. Michael Bailey
October 24, 2020

Chinese pianist Lang Lang went from being just one more fresh-faced and precocious teenaged phenomenon twenty years ago with his debut recording on Telarc, Lang Lang (2001), featuring the heady combination of Haydn, Rachmaninov, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky, to the leading Deutsche Grammophon firebrand releasing his first recording of a major, integrated, and complete composition, Bach's Goldberg ...

New York Rhapsody

By Lang Lang

Label: Sony Classical
Released: 2016
Track listing: Story of Our Town; New York Morning; Empire State of Mind; Rhapsody in Blue; New York Minute; Somewhere (Dirty Blvd.); Spider-Man Theme; Tonight; Moon River; In Evening Air;

Montreux Jazz Festival 2010: Grand Geneva Finales

by Phillip Woolever
August 12, 2010

Montreux Jazz 2010 Montreux, Switzerland July 15-16, 2010 Planet Jazz For a city with census figures at under 25,000 citizens, Montreux throws one hell of a party. For summer music fans, its heaven. The 44th edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival wrapped up this season's two ...

Lang Lang Signs Exclusive Contract with Sony Music Entertainment

February 16, 2010

Sony Music Entertainment is delighted to announce a comprehensive long-term music and media agreement with internationally celebrated pianist Lang Lang. Lang Lang's first album on Sony Classical will feature a live recording of Lang Lang's upcoming recital at Vienna's legendary Musikverein. The performance will also be made available in high definition video on the Blu-ray format. ...

Montreux Jazz 2009 Festival Journal

by Phillip Woolever
October 10, 2009

43rd Montreux Jazz Festival Montreux, Switzerland July 5-6, 2009 Summer months of music on the European festival circuit are indeed a multi-cultural garden of both earthly delights and otherworldly musical experiences. For performers and fans alike, these planes seem to unite for unique harmonic convergences. Among many storied festivals through ...

Can Herbie Hancock and Lang Lang Smash Musical Barriers?

July 26, 2009

The walls separating jazz, classical and pop music have been weakening for years, but they're about to be dealt another blow. For when a revered jazz musician partners with a star of classical music in an openly populist program, the ghetto-izing of our musical culture faces another setback. That's precisely what jazz icon Herbie Hancock and ...