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Encore!  Lang Lang triumphs in second Carnegie Hall recital

NEW YORK: After captivating listeners at his Carnegie Hall recital debut in 2003 – a breakthrough performance that went on to become an international best-seller on both CD and DVD – Lang Lang has done it again, earning standing ovations and superlative critical acclaim for his latest appearance in New York’s legendary concert venue.

The New York Times praised Lang Lang for bringing both pianistic swagger and tenderness to a well-rounded program, one that mirrored his most recent Deutsche Grammophon recording, Memory (CD 477 5938/477 5976). The pieces ranged from “a thoughtful, gently colorful” rendering of Schumann’s Kinder­szenen to “a lovely, silken performance” of a Chinese piece, Moonlight Reflec­tions. Lang Lang closed the concert with Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, played with “unalloyed virtuosity and enough sonic power to pin you to the hall’s back wall.”

Following his Carnegie success, Lang Lang capped his extensive US recital tour with a performance in Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, where the audience’s unbridled enthusiasm led one critic to deem Lang Lang “the closest thing to a superstar classical music has produced in the last decade” (The Chicago Tribune). “The shouting, screaming fans would not be placated until Lang gave them encores,” reported the newspaper. “Here his playing was so raptly beautiful that one was afraid to breathe for fear of missing anything.”

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