Album: Lang Lang,Liszt, My Piano Hero (Sony Classical)
Friday 09 September 2011
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The pianist eagerly marks Franz Liszt's bicentennial with this collection of his personal favourites, in which the limpid, emollient "Romance 'Ô Pourquoi Donc'" and sensitively Chopin-esque "Consolation No 3" sit somewhat uneasily alongside the grand emotional gestures of "Liebestraum No 3" and mannered exercises like "Grand Galop chromatique", which Lang performs in true show-pony style, with equine arrogance.
His talents are most generously indulged, however, in the Paganini study "La Campanella", a showcase of effusive flurries, sudden shifts of mood and rippling trills sweeping the entire length of the keyboard, all delivered with a restrained but dashing brio.
DOWNLOAD THIS: La Campanella; Consolation No3; Romance 'Ô Pourquoi Donc'
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