Lang Lang (pianist)
Lang Lang (郎 朗Chinese, Pinyin Láng Lǎng, IPA: [ lǎŋ LAN]; born June 14, 1982 in Shenyang, China) is a Chinese pianist.
Life
An anecdote says that Lang Lang looked at the age of two years on television Tom and Jerry when Tom was playing the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C sharp minor by Franz Liszt on the piano. This first encounter with Western music should have awakened a desire in him to learn to play the piano. So his parents saved for a piano lessons with Professor Zhu Ya -Fen at the Conservatory of his hometown, which he then already received three years.
At age five he won the Shenyang Piano Competition and played for the first time to public audiences. In the following years he received further awards at youth competitions in Beijing, later also in Germany and Japan.
At the age of nine, he took a music degree at Zhao Ping - Guo on at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. At age eleven, he won his first international award at the fourth International Youth Competition in Ettlingen in Germany.
From 1997 to 2002 he studied at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia with Gary Graffman.
The breakthrough came in 1999 at the age of 17 long years when he might step at the Galaxy of Stars of the Ravinia Festival for the indisposed André Watts at the last minute and played under the direction of Christoph Eschenbach with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto. In the following years long was funded by Christoph Eschenbach.
In 2001 he debuted with the Piano Concerto by Edward Grieg on the side of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Yuri Temirkanov at Carnegie Hall.
Since then graduated Lang Lang numerous concert tours and played under conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach, Sir Simon Rattle, Lorin Maazel and James Levine.
The opening concert of the London Proms in July 2003, he played under Leonard Slatkin 's first piano concert Tschaikowki. 2011, Lang Lang joined the sixth time since 2001 at the Last Night of the Proms on where it plays the Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major by Franz Liszt.
For a great stir his solo debut made on 7 November 2003 in the sold-out Carnegie Hall. The DVD documentary of the concert, Lang Lang - Live at Carnegie Hall under the direction Benedict Mirows, was awarded the 2005 Echo Klassik for Best Music DVD.
Lang Lang also had an appearance in the award-winning German - Austrian documentary Pianomania, directed by Lilian Franck and Robert Cibis. The film premiered in over 20 countries worldwide premiere and is part of the Goethe -Institut catalog.
As part of the Beijing Music Festival 2010, he played the piano concerto composed for him "Ruin and Memory " by Canadian composer Howard Shore. For Shores soundtrack to David Cronenberg's drama A Dangerous Method, he played one whose piano arrangement of Wagner's Siegfried Idyll.
Repertoire and reception
Lang Lang played in the early years of his career, repeated piano concertos, such as the first of Tchaikovsky and the second and third of Rachmaninov, which are to buy as recordings now. The images show Critics say both his skills as a still existing weaknesses.
While it should still have a little lacking in artistic individuality his earlier recordings with Telarc, came in his recital recording of Mozart's C major Sonata K. 330 and Chopin's B flat minor Sonata gloomy certain mannerisms to light. Some people bothered by his attention to detail, which sometimes hinders the flow of the music and the construction of large arcs.
The enormous potential of the Chinese people, however, will clearly into the furious Reminiscences de Don Juan his Carnegie recitals. With his sense of sound he play the impressionistic tinged Eight memories in watercolor paints of his friend composer Tan Dun in a variety of hues.
Special appearances
On 15 June 2005, Lang Lang joined by Zubin Mehta with Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor at the Concert for Europe in the castle park of Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna.
On 27 January 2006, he played for the 250th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart whose c- minor concerto at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
On 6 June 2006 he played at the opening concert of the World Cup " 3 Orchestras and Stars ", together with the Bavarian State Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Plácido Domingo and Diana Damrau.
Known to a wider audience, he was German, as he bet on September 30, 2006 in the TV show, dass. was a guest. He lost his bet and played as a betting redemption in the lobby of a hotel alarm clock Konstantin " Little Autumn Song ".
2007, Lang Lang made a guest appearance on Mike Oldfield's album Music of the Spheres. As part of the European Football Championship 2008, he played for ZDF on the Bregenz Floating Stage with Christopher Deylen alias Schiller.
On 8 August 2008 he played at the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Beijing.
On 10 December 2009 he played with the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama in Oslo.
He accompanied Jackie Chan on the piano to the song for the Expo 2010 in Shanghai.
Lang Lang played at the State Dinner in Washington in January 2011 " My Country ," a song from the movie " Battle on Shang Gangling Mountain". This assessed the British newspaper the Daily Mail as a scandal, as it must be regarded as an expression of anti-American sentiments.
On 4 June 2012, he played at the Diamond Jubilee Concert by the BBC to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II
On January 26, 2014 he met with the American heavy metal band Metallica on at the Grammy Awards in 2014, where they played the song One common.
Awards
- 2002 Leonard Bernstein Award
- 2010 International Mendelssohn Prize in Leipzig ( Music Category )
- 2012 Order of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2013 Golden Camera in the category " Best Music International "
- 2013 ECHO Klassik Best seller of the year for The Chopin Album
Recordings
- 2001: "Recorded Live At Seiji Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood " CD - Release Date: March 12, 2001
- SACD - Release Date: October 29, 2001
- CD - Release Date: April 2, 2002
- SACD - Release Date: April 29, 2002
- CD - Release Date: May 24, 2004
- SACD - Release Date: May 24, 2004
- DVD - Release Date: September 20, 2004
- CD - Deluxe version - release date: April 22, 2008
- CD including CD -Single - Release Date: January 13, 2006
- Lang Lang feat. Long Yu and China Philharmonic Orchestra CD - Release Date: September 29, 2006
- CD DVD - Release Date: September 29, 2006
- DVD - Release Date: September 29, 2006
- CD - Release Date: June 20, 2008
- Maxi - CD - Schiller feat. Lang Lang - Release Date: August 8, 2008
- CD - Release: August 2010