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Lang Lang to release Piano Book 2 – Modern Encores available digitally on 9 October

Lang Lang expands&nbsp;Piano Book 2&nbsp;with five tracks spanning anime, film, contemporary classical and musical theatre
Featuring Yoshiki Mizuno&rsquo;s &ldquo;Blue Bird&rdquo; from&nbsp;Naruto, Hans Zimmer&rsquo;s &ldquo;Cornfield Chase&rdquo; from&nbsp;Interstellar, and works by Tony Ann, Joep Beving and Richard Rodgers
&ldquo;Blue Bird&rdquo; &ndash; listen&nbsp;<a href="https://de-grammophon.cimediacloud.com/r/eH2ciCPaXFFD">here</a>
Lang Lang&rsquo;s new EP&nbsp;Piano Book 2 &ndash; Modern Encores&nbsp;will be released digitally on&nbsp;9 October 2026. Following the&nbsp;Classical Encores&nbsp;EP, it expands&nbsp;Piano Book 2&nbsp;with five works spanning anime, film, contemporary classical music and musical theatre.
The EP opens with Yoshiki Mizuno's&nbsp;"Blue Bird"&nbsp;from&nbsp;Naruto, arranged for piano by Telleria. It is followed by Hans Zimmer's "Cornfield Chase" from&nbsp;Interstellar, a new solo version of Tony Ann's&nbsp;"ICARUS"&nbsp;&ndash; which links back to the successful&nbsp;Piano Book 2&nbsp;duet with the composer himself, Joep Beving's "Sleeping Lotus" and Richard Rodgers'&nbsp;"My Favorite Things", arranged for piano by Hamilton.
The first single&nbsp;"Blue Bird"&nbsp;is released today&nbsp;18 September 2026. The EP&rsquo;s next single&nbsp;"Cornfield Chase"&nbsp;will be released on&nbsp;9 October&nbsp;alongside the new collection of works.

Superstar Pianist Lang Lang releases highly anticipated album Piano Book 2

&ldquo;With Piano Book 2, I want to present more music that speaks to everyone who loves the piano &ndash; whether you&rsquo;re just beginning, returning after many years, or simply playing for the joy of it&rdquo;
Lang Lang
Lang Lang&rsquo;s highly anticipated new album Piano Book 2 is released today, six years after the release of his celebrated 2019 Piano Book album. Released on digital and physical formats on Deutsche Grammophon, this new volume brings together iconic classical works, new contemporary pieces and themes from film and TV scores, anime, and video games. It offers 32 miniature masterpieces for all generations - spanning composers such as Bach, Chopin, Liszt, and Rachmaninoff to Tony Ann, Yu-Peng Chen, Ludovico Einaudi, and Joe Hisaishi. Also including music from Am&eacute;lie, La La Land, and Naruto, viral sensation Rush E and many more. &nbsp;<a href="https://youtu.be/EvNsPyp5O2I">A brand-new performance video</a> of Chopin&rsquo;s Nocturne is also released today.
The critically acclaimed pianist celebrated the album&rsquo;s release at a spectacular launch event in Beijing, China on 17 September, where he shared the creative inspiration behind Piano Book 2 and performed several pieces live for the first time. The event&rsquo;s biggest surprise came when the iconic animated duo Tom and Jerry appeared on stage to pay tribute to Lang Lang, who had inspired his early childhood dreams of pursuing music. Their appearance perfectly embodied the educational mission at the heart of the Piano Book series &mdash; to inspire a love of the piano in audiences young and old. The Beijing launch also highlighted special collaborations on the album, which saw rising Chinese-Canadian pianist Tony Ann premiering an exclusive four-hand arrangement of his viral composition Icarus, performed alongside Lang Lang.
Building on the excitement from the launch event, Lang Lang went on to perform select pieces from his new album at the <a href="https://umusic.ent.box.com/s/sjl2vo78bemkjtv5y5yber1i5ket291p">OPUS KLASSIK Gala</a> on 12 October at Konzerthaus Berlin, where he also accepted the award for Bestseller of the Year for his 2024 album Saint-Sa&euml;ns &ndash; broadcast on national television.
Lang Lang&rsquo;s Piano Book has become his highest-streaming album to date, with over 1.2 billion streams worldwide, and remains one of the biggest-selling classical albums from 2019.
The release of Piano Book 2 is further proof of Lang Lang&rsquo;s commitment to inspire pianists of all ages, levels and backgrounds, amplifying the message that classical music is for everyone. It continues the vision established by Piano Book, his efforts led by the Lang Lang International Music Foundation (LLIMF), and his engagement with the millions of fans who follow him on social media. The so-called &ldquo;Lang Lang effect&rdquo; has already encouraged tens of millions of children in China and beyond to learn the piano and other instruments, supported by the LLIMF&rsquo;s unique educational programmes, masterclasses, mentoring schemes, and additional initiatives.
Lang Lang refers to the 32 tracks on his new album as &ldquo;miniature masterpieces&rdquo;. They were carefully selected based on messages from fans, school syllabus content, and his own teaching experience &ndash; as well as works especially close to his heart &ndash; with subtle nods to modern media and streaming culture.
There is something for everyone in Lang Lang&rsquo;s latest thoughtfully curated anthology. He concludes a message to his fans by saying, &ldquo;I hope this collection helps you discover new favourites, reconnect with familiar melodies, and&nbsp;find renewed inspiration at the piano.&rdquo;
Piano Book 2 is available digitally and on 2 CD and 2 LP formats, including a marbled vinyl edition and CD/LP versions with signed art cards <a href="https://store.deutschegrammophon.com/">available from the DG Store</a>. A limited-edition CD offers access to downloadable sheet music and select tutorials via an NFC chip. Additionally, Faber Music have released a publication to accompany the album, featuring the piano sheet music, photographs and commentary about the music from Lang Lang himself.
Lang Lang kicked off the 2025-26 season with tour dates in Canada/the USA and the UK in September 2025. He continues a string of shows in Germany (17&nbsp;October-8&nbsp;November), and will then be performing in France (11&nbsp;November), returning to the USA (4-7 December), and Hong Kong (11/13&nbsp;December) &ndash; full details <a href="https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/artists/langlang/on-tour">here</a>.
October 2025

Lang Lang Releases Tony Ann’s Icarus from Upcoming Album Piano Book 2

Arranged for piano four hands, and performed by Lang Lang and Tony Ann, Icarus comes out on 3 October 2025
Piano Book 2 offers 32 miniature masterpieces for all generations, curated from classical, contemporary and online culture
Pianist Lang Lang unveils his latest single, Icarus, featuring the music of innovative Chinese-Canadian composer and pianist Tony Ann. Released on 3 October 2025, this exclusive four-hands version is taken from Lang Lang&rsquo;s upcoming album Piano Book&nbsp;2 and performed by the two artists as a duo. Out worldwide on Deutsche Grammophon on 17 October, Piano Book&nbsp;2 brings together iconic classical works, new contemporary pieces and themes from anime, films and video games.
&ldquo;Icarus is a really beautiful piece, and one of my favourites on this album,&rdquo; says Lang Lang. &ldquo;Right from the start, you get a sense of departure &ndash; from earth into the universe. When I play Icarus, it feels as if I&rsquo;m flying. I hope we will see more remarkable works like this from the next generation of composers.&rdquo;
Tony Ann himself describes the work as a deeply personal project and a turning point in his creative journey. Conceived as a musical expression of longing, transformation and overcoming boundaries, it draws on the myth of Icarus flying too close to the sun, but aims to leave space for hope and the possibility of reaching new heights.
One of the leading young voices in today&rsquo;s contemporary classical scene, Tony Ann is known for a unique style that bridges classical tradition and pop influences. He first gained international attention through social media, especially with his #playthatword series, and now has over 4 million followers. His output ranges from solo piano pieces to major collaborations with artists like The Chainsmokers and Don Diablo. He continues to broaden the genre with concept albums such as 360&deg;, released earlier this year via Decca/Universal.
&ldquo;Hearing Lang Lang play Icarus is an overwhelming and humbling experience,&rdquo; says Tony Ann, who recently joined his colleague on stage during a spectacular Piano Book&nbsp;2 launch event in Beijing. &ldquo;His artistry captures both the hope and the risk at the heart of this music. It&rsquo;s an honour to contribute to Piano Book 2 and to share this journey with listeners worldwide.&rdquo;
Building on the triumph of his best-selling 2019 release Piano Book &ndash; a global phenomenon with over 1.2 billion streams to date &ndash; Lang Lang&rsquo;s new collection of 32 carefully selected miniature masterpieces draws inspiration from the wishes of fans, modern educational practice, and repertoire especially close to his own heart. With its mix of classical favourites, contemporary works and highlights from today&rsquo;s digital and popular culture, Piano Book&nbsp;2 underlines Lang Lang&rsquo;s vision: to inspire passion for the piano across generations, backgrounds and skill levels.
Previous digital singles from the album &ndash; Liszt&rsquo;s Consolation No.&nbsp;2 and Sadness and Sorrow from Naruto &ndash; are already available across all platforms.

Following the success of 2019's Piano Book, superstar pianist Lang Lang Returns with a second volume

&ldquo;With Piano Book 2, I want to present more music that speaks to everyone who loves the piano &ndash; whether you&rsquo;re just beginning, returning after many years, or simply playing for the joy of it&rdquo;
Lang Lang
Piano Book has surpassed one billion global streams to date and became one of the biggest classical albums of 2019. Now, Piano Book 2 offers a new selection of miniature masterpieces
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The album will be released on 17&nbsp;October 2025
Featuring 32 tracks from composers such as Bach, Chopin, Liszt, and Rachmaninoff to Tony Ann, Yu-Peng Chen, Ludovico Einaudi, and Joe Hisaishi. Also including music from Am&eacute;lie, La La Land, and Naruto, viral sensation Rush&nbsp;E and many more
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Six years after the release of his celebrated Piano Book album, Lang Lang returns with Piano Book 2. Set to be released on digital and physical formats on 17 October 2025 via Deutsche Grammophon, this new volume of short and accessible piano works offers a fresh selection that ranges from iconic classical compositions and contemporary pieces to music from TV, film, and gaming soundtracks. Liszt&rsquo;s Consolation No.&nbsp;2 is the first track from the album to be released, out on 5 September and available to stream/download on all platforms.
Lang Lang&rsquo;s Piano Book has become his highest-streaming album to date, surpassing one billion streams worldwide, and remains one of the biggest-selling classical albums from 2019. It went platinum in China, charted in the Top&nbsp;10 in the German pop charts, and peaked at No.&nbsp;1 in the classical charts across the US, UK, France, Germany, Japan, and Australia.
The release of Piano Book 2 is further proof of Lang Lang&rsquo;s commitment to inspire pianists of all ages, levels and backgrounds, amplifying the message that classical music is for everyone. It continues the vision established by Piano Book, his efforts led by the Lang Lang International Music Foundation (LLIMF), and his engagement with the millions of fans who follow him on social media. The so-called &ldquo;Lang Lang effect&rdquo; has already encouraged tens of millions of children in China and beyond to learn the piano and other instruments, supported by the LLIMF&rsquo;s unique educational programmes, masterclasses, mentoring schemes, and additional initiatives.
Lang Lang refers to the 32 tracks on his new album as &ldquo;miniature masterpieces&rdquo;. They were carefully selected based on messages from fans, school syllabus content, and his own teaching experience &ndash; as well as works especially close to his heart &ndash; with subtle nods to modern media and streaming culture.
Famous works by Bach, Mozart, Satie, Debussy &amp; co. sit alongside new arrangements of themes from the anime TV series Naruto, films La La Land, Am&eacute;lie, and Cinema Paradiso, and the video game Black Myth: Wukong. Aware that gaming is a key source of inspiration for younger listeners, composers, and performers today, Lang Lang also plays excerpts from Nobuo Uematsu&rsquo;s score for Final Fantasy X and Yu-Peng Chen&rsquo;s Genshin Impact soundtrack.
His program also embraces internet-born favorites: Andrew Wrangell&rsquo;s Rush&nbsp;E and Tony Ann&rsquo;s Icarus, which he and the composer perform in a brand-new four-hands version created by Ann for Piano Book&nbsp;2.
Other tracks in this wide-ranging mix include jazz standard I&rsquo;m Confessin&rsquo;, popularised by Thelonious Monk, and numbers from two of today&rsquo;s best-known pianist-composers, Joe Hisaishi (Spring) and Ludovico Einaudi (Fly).
There is something for everyone in Lang Lang&rsquo;s latest thoughtfully curated anthology. He concludes a message to his fans by saying, &ldquo;I hope this collection helps you discover new favourites, reconnect with familiar melodies, and&nbsp;find renewed inspiration at the piano.&rdquo;
Piano Book 2 will be available digitally and on 2 CD and 2 LP formats, including a marbled vinyl edition and CD/LP versions with signed art cards <a href="https://store.deutschegrammophon.com/">available from the DG Store</a>. A limited-edition CD offers access to downloadable sheet music and select tutorials via an NFC chip. Additionally, Faber Music will release a publication to accompany the album, featuring the piano sheet music, photographs and commentary about the music from Lang Lang himself.
Lang Lang starts the 2025-26 season with tour dates in Canada/the USA (19-29&nbsp;September &amp; 4/7&nbsp;December), the UK (3-10&nbsp;October), Germany (13&nbsp;October-8&nbsp;November), France (11&nbsp;November) and Hong Kong (11/13&nbsp;December) &ndash; full details <a href="https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/artists/langlang/on-tour">here</a>.

Deutsche Grammophon Releases Lang Lang’s World Premiere Recording of Long-Lost Chopin Waltz

The Waltz in A&nbsp;minor &ldquo;Found in New York&rdquo; (2024 World Premiere Recording) will be released on 8 November 2024
&ldquo;This is not the most complicated music by Chopin, but it is one of the most authentic Chopin styles that you can imagine&rdquo; Lang Lang
Berlin, 1 November 2024. Exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist Lang Lang has made the world premiere recording of a newly unearthed 200-year-old waltz, believed to be the work of the great Polish composer and pianist Fryderyk Chopin (1810-49). The Yellow Label is delighted to announce that it will release the Waltz in A&nbsp;minor &ldquo;Found in New York&rdquo; &ndash; premiered by Lang Lang on 27 October in New&nbsp;York &ndash; as a digital single on Friday 8&nbsp;November.
As reported by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/arts/music/chopin-waltz-discovery.html">The New York Times</a>, the manuscript bearing the waltz was discovered by curator Robinson McClellan while he was cataloguing a collection of memorabilia bequeathed to the Morgan Library &amp; Museum in Manhattan. The music, in tiny notation, appears on a piece of paper the size of an index card (10x12cm), is headed &ldquo;Valse&rdquo;, and has the name &ldquo;Chopin&rdquo; at the top of the page (this is not the composer&rsquo;s signature, but an addition by another hand). Having carried out comprehensive tests on the paper and ink, analysed the penmanship and musical style, and worked closely with Chopin specialists, the Morgan believes the work to be, in all likelihood, a previously unknown waltz by the composer, written in around 1830-35.
Chopin composed waltzes throughout his career. Notable for their elegance and refinement, and brimming with invention, they redefined the notion of the &ldquo;salon piece&rdquo;. Many of them display contrasting moods, from whirling energy to melancholy reflection. The &ldquo;Found in New York&rdquo; Waltz, in A&nbsp;minor, is just 48 bars long and starts in darkly dramatic style, with soft, dissonant notes exploding into stormy chords. As Dr Artur Szklener, Director of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute observes, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/@instytut.chopina/">&ldquo;the piece has features of the brilliant style, which agrees with the indicated possible time of composition&rdquo;</a>.
This Chopin release follows hot on the heels of DG&rsquo;s recent trio of world premiere recordings of &ldquo;A&nbsp;Very Little Night Music&rdquo;, a rediscovered work by Mozart. The previously unknown Serenade in C&nbsp;major, K&nbsp;648, was discovered by researchers from the International Mozarteum Foundation&nbsp;in the Carl Ferdinand Becker collection of the Municipal Music Library in Leipzig. Consisting of seven miniature movements for string trio, it was introduced to the public on 19 September 2024 by the International Mozarteum Foundation. Deutsche Grammophon issued three different interpretations of the work last month: a <a href="https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue/products/mozart-serenade-in-c-major-k-648-a-very-little-night-music-13628">version for two violins, cello and harpsichord</a>, <a href="https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue/products/mozart-serenade-in-c-major-k-648-a-very-little-night-music-13634">a second for two violins, double bass and harpsichord</a>, and &nbsp;an <a href="https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue/products/mozart-serenade-in-c-major-k-648-a-very-little-night-music-13633">orchestral adaptation</a>.
ABOUT LANG LANG
Internationally renowned pianist Lang Lang has sold millions of albums worldwide, topping classical charts and achieving simultaneous mainstream success. Named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME magazine, during the past decade he has performed for such dignitaries as President Barack Obama, Pope Francis and the late Queen Elizabeth II, as well as giving sold-out concerts with all of the world&rsquo;s top orchestras and conductors. Lang Lang has also reached vast televised audiences by performing at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the final of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and with artists such as Metallica, Pharrell Williams and Herbie Hancock at various editions of the Grammy Awards. In April 2020 he took part in the One World: Together At Home concert, which was broadcast on major television networks and streamed online on multiple global platforms. In June 2022, Lang Lang was announced as an honoree in the Hollywood Walk of Fame Class of 2023: he was recognised in a ceremony in April 2024 together with such stars as Paul Walker, Uma Thurman, Lenny Kravitz, Mindy Kaling, the Jonas Brothers, Melba Moore, Pentatonix and others.
The scale of Lang Lang&rsquo;s musical achievements is mirrored by his tireless commitment to charitable causes, most notably through the Lang Lang International Music Foundation and Keys of Inspiration&reg;. Both a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and a UN Messenger of Peace, he has inspired over 40 million children to learn the piano and has developed hugely successful educational programmes. Lang Lang&rsquo;s recent albums, 2019&rsquo;s The Piano Book, 2020&rsquo;s Goldberg Variations, 2022&rsquo;s The Disney Book and 2024&rsquo;s Lang Lang &ndash; Saint-Sa&euml;ns, were runaway international bestsellers. He won an army of new fans in 2023 as one of the judges on The Piano, a heartwarming talent show broadcast by Channel 4 in the UK. One of the most influential classical musicians in the world, Lang Lang has over 20 million social media followers. Everything the pianist does is underpinned by his belief that &ldquo;music makes life better &ndash; it heals, unites and inspires, and it makes us better people&rdquo;.

Lang Lang Celebrates the Year of the Dragon

A new 50-track digital compilation brings together all the pianist&rsquo;s recordings of Chinese music 
Year of the Dragon &ndash; Songs from China includes the complete Dragon Songs album, works by Tan Dun and favourite pieces from Piano Book, among others
It also features two brand-new recordings &ndash; Snowflakes (listen <a href="https://d.docs.live.net/3990d4e7dffc7914/Dokumente/DG%20und%20Decca/Press%20Releases/Lang%20Lang/Dragon%20Year%20release%202024/dg.lnk.to/dragon-songs">here</a>) and Moon is Bright Lullaby
The album comes out on 27&nbsp;September 2024, alongside a Dolby Atmos reissue of Dragon Songs 
According to the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, 2024 is the year of the dragon. To mark this auspicious occasion, Lang Lang is celebrating his heritage with a digital album comprising all his Deutsche Grammophon recordings of Chinese music. Year of the Dragon &ndash; Songs from China presents, among other works, all the music from the Dragon Songs album, including the &ldquo;Yellow River&rdquo; Piano Concerto and, to open with, Autumn moon on a calm lake &ndash; one of the pianist&rsquo;s most successful streaming tracks. The compilation also takes in Tan Dun&rsquo;s Eight Memories in Watercolour and complete soundtrack to The Banquet; a selection of pieces from Piano Book; and two new recordings &ndash; Snowflakes and Moon is Bright Lullaby. Snowflakes will be available to stream/download from 13&nbsp;September, while Year of the Dragon is released two weeks later, on 27&nbsp;September.
As well as featuring a wealth of solo pieces, the album offers ensemble and orchestral works in which Lang Lang is joined by an array of other world-renowned artists. These include tenor Andrea Bocelli and soprano Lei Jia, the China Philharmonic Orchestra and Long Yu, the Shanghai Opera House Chorus, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Tan Dun, and the Prague Symphony Orchestra and Alexandre Desplat.
Snowflakes, by Shuai Zhang, was originally performed by a children&rsquo;s choir at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics opening ceremony. &ldquo;It was like music from paradise,&rdquo; recalls Lang Lang. On Year of the Dragon he performs a new solo piano arrangement created by Shuai Zhang. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m very happy to work with Shuai Zhang, who is from my home city and the same age as me, so we share a lot of the same memories,&rdquo; notes the pianist. &ldquo;This melody is almost like a wave of love and passion, and it gives you joyfulness.&rdquo;
By contrast, Moon is Bright Lullaby&nbsp;has a far longer history &ndash; a traditional tune from northeastern China (Lang Lang&rsquo;s home region), here arranged by Zhang Zhao, it resonates deeply with many people across the country. &ldquo;This melody transports me back to my home town in the cold winter,&rdquo; says Lang Lang. &ldquo;At my grandparents&rsquo; place, my cousins and I fell asleep to this beautiful melody &hellip; This is a new arrangement by a remarkable composer and I like it very much.&rdquo;
Also out on 27 September is a brand-new Dolby Atmos mix of Dragon Songs. Originally released in 2006, the album was based on the idea of cultural exchange &ndash; having introduced many western classical masterpieces to Chinese audiences, Lang Lang was keen to reverse the process. As he said at the time, &ldquo;I love the idea of making connections between Chinese culture and the rest of the world.&rdquo; Gramophone praised the album&rsquo;s &ldquo;fascinating variety of traditional Chinese songs&rdquo; especially those pairing the piano with Chinese instruments. &ldquo;Not only do they marvellously showcase Fan Wei&rsquo;s pipa (Chinese lute), Zhang Jiali&rsquo;s guanzi (double-reed pipe) and Ji Wei&rsquo;s guzheng (Chinese zither), they also reveal Lang Lang as an inspiring and musicianly collaborator.&rdquo;
Filmed in 2006, the <a href="https://www.stage-plus.com/video/video_APKM8PBFBSOJ4">Dragon Songs</a> documentary traces a journey back to Lang Lang&rsquo;s roots, following his return home to China to reconnect with family and friends, and share the importance of having a personal connection to the music. The film is available on Deutsche Grammophon&rsquo;s streaming platform <a href="https://www.stage-plus.com/tickets">STAGE+</a> and can be watched free of charge until the end of October.
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About STAGE+
STAGE+ is a ground-breaking classical music streaming service from Deutsche Grammophon, which has been designed to bring audiences closer than ever before to the Yellow Label&rsquo;s roster of world-class artists and beyond, via a wide range of content, which includes exclusive live concerts and premieres; long-form concert and opera programmes; music videos; documentaries and behind-the-scenes interviews; new audio releases, as well as albums from the legendary Deutsche Grammophon and Decca catalogues. The platform is available as a TV, mobile and web app, with many videos offered in 4K resolution and Dolby Atmos. Audio content is available in Lossless or Hi-Res formats. Optimised metadata enables users to search via title and access individual works, movements, or opera scenes, with every search linked to all relevant audio and video content available for any particular artist, composer, work, venue or partner organisation. Subscribers can save favourites and download content to mobile devices for offline viewing or listening.&nbsp;

Lang Lang's New Album Presents French Classics And Rarities

Classical favourites, revelatory discoveries and two large-scale works by Saint-Sa&euml;ns make up the fantastic selection of French music on Chinese pianist Lang Lang&rsquo;s latest recording. Released today&nbsp;on 2&nbsp;CDs, 2&nbsp;LPs and digitally, Lang Lang &ndash; Saint-Sa&euml;ns sees the artist join forces with his wife, pianist Gina Alice, the Gewandhausorchester and conductor Andris Nelsons. At the heart of the album are the magical Carnival of the Animals, Saint-Sa&euml;ns&rsquo;s &ldquo;Grand Zoological Fantasy&rdquo; for two pianos and orchestra, and the same composer&rsquo;s virtuosic Piano Concerto No.&nbsp;2. Also included are a dozen works for solo piano or piano four hands &ndash; a blend of Belle &Eacute;poque favourites and neglected gems by female French composers.
Lang Lang&rsquo;s decision to open the album with a work that has enchanted generations of young listeners and introduced millions to classical music reflects his mission to attract children to the genre. &ldquo;Many of us remember Saint-Sa&euml;ns&rsquo;s famous Carnival of the Animals from childhood. There are a lot of clever ideas underneath all the fun. He&rsquo;s making a real statement, but in a very humorous way,&rdquo; says the pianist. &ldquo;And of course it was wonderful to record it with my wife, Gina Alice.&rdquo;
The artists&rsquo; reading of &ldquo;Aquarium&rdquo; is already available digitally, complete with performance video, as is the piano four hands arrangement of &ldquo;The Swan&rdquo; in which Lang Lang plays both parts, while &ldquo;Fossils&rdquo; comes out today alongside the album, again with a video. A filmed version of the full work from the Gewandhaus stage, with Andris Nelsons, Gina Alice and Lang Lang,&nbsp;is available to watch on <a href="https://www.stage-plus.com/video/live_concert_9HKNCPA3DTN66PBIEHFJAC9H">STAGE+</a>.
As an added treat, we are delighted to present a digital-only version of Carnival of the Animals which includes readings of the much-loved comic verses written to accompany each movement of the work by American poet Ogden Nash (1902-1971). First voiced by No&euml;l Coward on a recording issued in 1950, Nash&rsquo;s poems are here narrated by comedian and Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon.
The second orchestral work on the album, Saint-Sa&euml;ns&rsquo;s Second Piano Concerto is, according to Lang Lang, a &ldquo;magnificent but underrated Romantic masterpiece&rdquo;. As part of his Saint-Sa&euml;ns project, a film of the work made live in concert at Leipzig&rsquo;s Gewandhaus will be broadcast on ARTE on 24 March 2024 and will be available to watch internationally on DG&rsquo;s audio and video streaming platform <a href="https://www.stage-plus.com/video/live_concert_9HKNCPA3DTN66PBIEHFJACPJ">STAGE+</a> on World Piano Day on 28 March.
Lang Lang &ndash; Saint Sa&euml;ns also shines light on music by five female French composers largely overlooked until recent years. The pianist performs D&rsquo;un jardin clair by Lili Boulanger (1893-1918); Valse lente by Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983); &ldquo;La toute petite s&rsquo;endort&rdquo; from Miocheries by M&eacute;lanie-H&eacute;l&egrave;ne Bonis (1858-1937); &Eacute;tude No.&nbsp;10 by Louise Farrenc (1804-1875); and &ldquo;Romance sans paroles&rdquo; from Quatre pi&egrave;ces romantiques Op.&nbsp;30 by Charlotte Sohy (1897-1955).
Alongside these rarities, he has chosen a series of other smaller-scale works by more familiar French names. Among these are Ravel&rsquo;s Pavane pour une infante d&eacute;funte; Faur&eacute;&rsquo;s Pavane; and Debussy&rsquo;s Petite Suite, a duet with Gina Alice.
Lang Lang continues to perform Saint-Sa&euml;ns&rsquo;s Piano Concerto No.&nbsp;2 this season, with forthcoming dates in Berlin (Staatsoper, 11 March; Philharmonie, 12 March), San Diego (12&nbsp;April), Cleveland, Ohio (2/4 May) and Paris (12 June). He and Gina Alice play Carnival of the Animals in Paris on 14 June and in Wiesbaden as part of the Rheingau Musik Festival on 21 July, when the programme will feature both Carnival and the Second Piano Concerto.

Lang Lang Unveils New Album: 'The Disney Book'

In celebration of 100 years of The Walt Disney Company, globally acclaimed piano virtuoso Lang Lang is set to transport listeners into the magical world of snow castles and flying carpets with his latest album, The Disney Book.
This enchanting musical journey through iconic movie melodies, reimagined in new versions written especially for him by some of the world&rsquo;s leading arrangers, invites fans of all ages to enjoy classical music through Lang Lang&rsquo;s unique interpretations. The recording will be released on 16 September on Deutsche Grammophon, in collaboration with Disney Music Group.
A truly international production, with recording sessions taking place in London, New York, Shanghai and Paris, The Disney Book traces the history of music in Disney films from the 1920s to the present day, whilst also reflecting Lang Lang&rsquo;s own personal journey. Lang Lang explains: &ldquo;Animation sparked my imagination and transported me to other worlds. The music was a big part of this experience &ndash; and led to my life-long love of classical music. There is such a variety of styles in Disney songs; truly, something to inspire everyone. I hope that people of all ages will enjoy this recording and experience the joy that we all felt the first time we saw a Disney film.&rdquo;
The album&rsquo;s first single, released today, is &ldquo;Feed the Birds&rdquo; from Mary Poppins &ndash; which Walt Disney himself famously declared to be his favourite Disney melody. The film&rsquo;s co-composers, brothers Richard and Robert Sherman, were regularly asked to join Walt in his office on a Friday afternoon to play it for him; they even continued this tradition after the legendary animator&rsquo;s death in 1966. Lang Lang&rsquo;s own version of &ldquo;Feed the Birds&rdquo; features an accompanying video, shot as dawn broke over Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland Park in California.
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Lang Lang has long been inspired by Disney music. He says, &ldquo;When I was thirteen, I visited Tokyo Disneyland; it was the first time I had heard &lsquo;It&rsquo;s a Small World&rsquo; and the melody stayed with me all day &ndash; and long afterwards.&rdquo; Fast forward to 2016 and he was performing at the grand opening of Shanghai Disney Resort with a unique rendition of &ldquo;Let It Go&rdquo; from Frozen.
The Disney Book features joyous new versions of songs from Pinocchio and The Jungle Book to Frozen and Encanto, along with several collaborators from across the globe. Andrea Bocelli provides vocals for &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll Be in My Heart&rdquo; from Tarzan; singer-songwriter and pianist Jon Batiste revisits his Oscar&reg;-winning Soul score with &ldquo;It&rsquo;s All Right&rdquo;; and Colombian singer-songwriter Sebasti&aacute;n Yatra performs the Oscar-nominated song &ldquo;Dos Oruguitas&rdquo; from Encanto.&nbsp; There are also guest appearances from guitarist Milo&scaron;, Chinese erhu player Guo Gan, and Lang Lang&rsquo;s wife Gina Alice, plus the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Robert Ziegler.
In order to showcase the range and versatility of the piano, Lang Lang enlisted some of the world&rsquo;s top arrangers including Sir Stephen Hough, Natalie Tenenbaum and Randy Kerber. Whilst maintaining the essence of the melodies, the imaginative and sophisticated arrangements &ndash; whether for solo piano or piano and full orchestra &ndash; conjure the sound worlds of Debussy and Chopin, as well as the virtuosity of Liszt and Horowitz. Sir Stephen Hough comments: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been a huge admirer of Lang Lang for years and I was delighted to be asked to arrange some Disney songs for him. I loved the challenge of transforming these popular songs, beloved by generations of children and parents, into solo piano pieces, rooted in the classical tradition of the great transcribers of the past.&rdquo;
The Disney Book is a continuation of Lang Lang&rsquo;s unbridled commitment to music education. Much like his hugely successful 2019 album Piano Book, which brought together some of Lang Lang&rsquo;s favourite pieces as a way to encourage budding young musicians, The Disney Book aims to inspire people of all ages to explore classical music. It is a heartfelt gift to all generations and especially meaningful to Lang Lang, having recently become a father himself.
Lang Lang&rsquo;s The Disney Book tells the story of a century of magical, uplifting entertainment for all. The album will be available in all digital formats as well as a number of physical versions including standard, deluxe and limited editions. It will also be accompanied by a number of live dates at major international venues including the UK and US.

Superstar Pianist Lang Lang Teams up with Tiktok and Deutsche Grammophon to Launch Landmark First Concert on Tiktok

Lang Lang is set to make history by giving his <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@deutschegrammophon?lang=de-DE">first ever concert on TikTok</a> on <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@deutschegrammophon?lang=de-DE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Friday, November 26 2021 at 7PM (CET</a>), with the TikTok In-app Event to be highlighted on the iOS App Store. His 30-minute performance will be presented in collaboration with Deutsche Grammophon. Lang Lang has created a special programme for the occasion, featuring excerpts from his recent chart-topping album of Bach&rsquo;s Goldberg Variations and evergreen pieces from his best-selling Piano Book, including &ldquo;F&uuml;r Elise&rdquo; and &ldquo;Clair de lune&rdquo;. His choice of music is sure to appeal to piano lovers worldwide and reach out to TikTok&rsquo;s global audience. TikTok will promote new content on the Lang Lang and Deutsche Grammophon channels to encourage fans and new followers to discover more about the globally renowned artist and the world of classical music.
Lang Lang comments: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m thrilled to play for an audience that includes millions of young people. It&rsquo;s a terrific opportunity to reach my fans on TikTok, and to encourage new classical music lovers by sharing some of my favourite pieces.&rdquo;
Michael K&uuml;mmerle, Head of Music Operations TikTok Germany: &ldquo;First class LIVEs, like this concert from Lang Lang, show how successfully we have established TikTok as a home for classical music. After the first partnership with Opus Klassik and the success of <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/pianotok?lang=de-DE">#PianoTok</a>, this is another milestone in bringing classical music into the homes of our community. Especially in times where performances are still limited, artists can interact directly with their long-time and new fans via TikTok LIVE.&rdquo;
Dr Clemens Trautmann, President Deutsche Grammophon, adds: &ldquo;Sharing Lang Lang&rsquo;s inspirational talent through this collaboration with TikTok will bring the joy of classical music to many new fans across the globe. We know Lang Lang will give the platform&rsquo;s followers an unforgettable experience and are delighted he&rsquo;s chosen to play some of the greatest piano music of all time for his TikTok debut.&rdquo;
Lang Lang&rsquo;s performance coincides with his ongoing recital tour of Bach&rsquo;s Goldbergs to nine leading European cities. It also marks DG&rsquo;s second collaboration with TikTok after the Yellow Lounge 20th‑anniversary event was streamed from the Reeperbahn Festival in September.
The <a href="tiktok.com/@deutschegrammophon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deutsche Grammophon TikTok channel</a> offers a comprehensive range of music tracks and videos, including clips starring Max Richter, Anna Netrebko, Alice Sara Ott, Seong-Jin Cho, Daniil Trifonov, John Williams, Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lang Lang.
Lang Lang&rsquo;s streamed concert is supported as a major artist focus by TikTok. Across the week of the pianist&rsquo;s performance, the platform will run a prominent hashtag campaign dedicated entirely to classical music, complete with exclusive offers &ndash; TikTok #classicalmusic.
Lang Lang will perform on TikTok on <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@deutschegrammophon?lang=de-DE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Friday, November 26 2021 at 7PM (CET</a>) and will be viewable <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@deutschegrammophon?lang=de-DE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Lang Lang releases 'The Goldberg Variations Extended Edition'

Lang Lang kn&uuml;pft an den gro&szlig;en Erfolg seines Doppelalbums mit den Goldberg-Variationen von Johann Sebastian Bach an und bringt eine digitale Extended Edition heraus, die au&szlig;ergew&ouml;hnliche Bonustracks beinhaltet.

Following on from the worldwide success of his Goldberg Variations album, Lang Lang now releases a series of new recordings as part of the Goldberg Variations Extended Deluxe Edition on 12 February 2021. These are some of the works in which the pianist immersed himself during his intensive study of J.S. Bach&rsquo;s Baroque masterpiece.
&ldquo;The more time I spent with the Goldberg Variations, the more I wanted to know about Bach, his contemporaries and the composers he later inspired,&rdquo; explains Lang Lang. &ldquo;Each of the new pieces I&rsquo;ve recorded for this project have added to my understanding of his music.&rdquo;
The Goldberg Variations Extended Edition includes no fewer than seven bonus tracks. First among them are the exquisite &ldquo;Bist du bei mir&rdquo;, an aria by Bach&rsquo;s slightly younger contemporary Gottfried Heinrich St&ouml;lzel which appears in transcription in the Anna Magdalena Notebook, and an arrangement of the Sinfonia from Bach&rsquo;s Christmas Oratorio. Listeners will also be able to enjoy Wilhelm Kempff&rsquo;s sublime transcription for solo piano of the Siciliano from Bach&rsquo;s Second Flute Sonata and the Andante from Bach&rsquo;s Italian Concerto. In addition, Lang Lang has chosen the Arabesque by Schumann, who looked to his predecessors for inspiration and saw Bach&rsquo;s music as the purest source of strength for a renewal of the art form. Finally, the new edition features a contemplative arrangement of &ldquo;Sheep may safely graze&rdquo;, which Lang Lang has recorded with his wife, the German-Korean pianist Gina Alice, and the Andante from Johann Gottlieb Goldberg&rsquo;s Sonata in D major &ndash; a reflection of the fact that during his long years of exploring Bach&rsquo;s monumental keyboard work, Lang Lang also studied the surviving music of the talented young harpsichordist and composer who lent the work its name.
This digital project is a companion to the album released in September 2020 featuring Lang Lang&rsquo;s studio and live recordings of the Goldberg Variations. The new Extended Edition will be accompanied by filmed performances of each work, as well as further videos in which the pianist discusses aspects of his interpretations.
The Goldberg Variations Extended Edition is released today, 12 February 2021.

Lang Lang releases visual album of his performance in Beijing

Today, November 27th Lang Lang releases his new visual album exclusively on Apple Music for one week. A selection of the Goldberg Variations is performed from the historic Temple (东景缘, Dongjingyuan) in Beijing &ndash; site of the old imperial printing house and a former Buddhist shrine, meticulously renovated in recent years to preserve its multi-layered history.
The superstar pianist, who waited 20 years before playing Johann Sebastian Bach&rsquo;s monumental composition in public, has finally achieved his goal of recording the Goldberg Variations. Listen to the result of two decades of deep study and personal reflection, his vision of Bach&rsquo;s Aria and 30 Variations <a href="https://music.apple.com/de/album/bach-goldberg-variations-selections-live-from-beijing/1540311519?uo=4&amp;ct=0044007630969_lang%2blang_selections%2bfrom%2bthe%2bgoldberg%2bvariations_www.universal-music.de&amp;app=music&amp;at=1000lMJJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Lang Lang performs Goldberg Variations from Bach’s own church in Leipzig on DG Stage

In March 2020, Lang Lang gave only his second ever live performance of Johann Sebastian Bach&rsquo;s Goldberg Variations at Leipzig&rsquo;s historic St Thomas Church. Although he was very aware of the composer&rsquo;s long association with the church, the emotional impact of playing this monumental work just metres from Bach&rsquo;s grave still took him by surprise. Lang Lang is now giving fans the chance to experience the unique atmosphere of this recital, which was recorded live by Deutsche Grammophon, through a special streamed concert on DG Stage, taking place on Thursday 19&nbsp;November at 8pm CET and available online for 48 hours after. Further details <a href="http://www.dg-premium.com/dg_stage_video/lang-lang-performs-j-s-bachs-goldberg-variations">here</a>&nbsp;
In addition to the concert stream, Lang Lang is also releasing a series of new recordings from his forthcoming Goldberg Variations Extended Edition, which is set for digital release on 12&nbsp;February 2021. The new version of his acclaimed double album (which features both live and studio recordings) includes seven bonus tracks &ndash; four of which will be released digitally on Friday 20 November. The new pieces are among Lang Lang&rsquo;s personal discoveries &ndash; they convey the tenderness and beauty of Bach&rsquo;s melodic writing and complement the Goldberg Variations.
&ldquo;The more time I spent with the Goldberg Variations, the more I wanted to know about Bach, his contemporaries and the composers he later inspired,&rdquo; explains Lang Lang. &ldquo;From a vocal number by St&ouml;lzel that was obviously popular in the Bach household and a work by the young Goldberg himself, to a beautiful miniature by Schumann &ndash; who loved and studied Bach throughout his life &ndash; via solo piano arrangements of some of Bach&rsquo;s loveliest vocal and instrumental writing, all seven of the pieces I&rsquo;ve just recorded as part of this project have added to my understanding of his music.&rdquo;
The four new tracks being released on 20 November include the exquisite &ldquo;Bist du bei mir&rdquo;, an aria by Bach&rsquo;s slightly younger contemporary Gottfried Heinrich St&ouml;lzel which appears in transcription in the Anna Magdalena Notebook, and an arrangement of the Sinfonia from Bach&rsquo;s Christmas Oratorio. Wilhelm Kempff&rsquo;s sublime transcription for solo piano of the Siciliano from Bach&rsquo;s Second Flute Sonata and the Andante from Bach&rsquo;s Italian Concerto complete the initial batch of bonus tracks.
A fifth single, featuring a work by Robert Schumann, will be digitally released on 15&nbsp;January 2021. Schumann looked to his predecessors for inspiration and saw Bach&rsquo;s music as the purest source of strength for a renewal of the art form. His Arabesque, whose meditative mood is punctuated by emotional outbursts, chimes perfectly with the Goldberg Variations.
The extended edition will include two more new tracks, the first of which is a contemplative arrangement of Bach&rsquo;s &ldquo;Sheep may safely graze&rdquo; which Lang Lang has recorded with his wife, the German-Korean pianist Gina Alice. Finally, during his long years of exploring the Bach masterpiece, Lang Lang also studied the surviving music of the talented young harpsichordist and composer who lent the work its name. For the last of his bonus tracks he has chosen the delightful Andante from Johann Gottlieb Goldberg&rsquo;s Sonata in D major.
This seven-track digital project is a companion to Lang Lang&rsquo;s new studio recording of the Goldberg Variations and his live Leipzig version. The album has received international critical praise since its release in September. Gramophone welcomed it as &ldquo;the musical equivalent of a cinematic epic&rdquo;, while the S&uuml;ddeutsche Zeitung judged it to be &ldquo;an astonishing, multi-layered, hybrid musical statement of a kind we haven&rsquo;t heard before&rdquo;. ArtsJournal in the United States, meanwhile, declared that the release &ldquo;is easily his finest achievement&rdquo;, a view echoed in London by The Times, which praised Lang Lang as &ldquo;a mature and individual performer, fully engaged with Bach&rsquo;s genius&rdquo;.
The Goldberg Variations Extended Edition will be accompanied by video performances of each work, as well as track-by-track videos in which Lang Lang discusses aspects of the music and what each of the seven bonus pieces means to him.

Lang Lang’s Spotify Playlist Contest

Lang Lang invites you to create your ultimate Goldberg Variations Spotify playlist for a chance to be featured on his Spotify account and to win an exclusive limited-edition Goldberg Variations poster!
<ol>
<li>Click on the link below, sign in and create a playlist with your favourite variations!</li>
<li>Share the playlist on your social media channels and add #MyLangLangVariations</li>
<li>Tag Lang Lang in your post!</li>
</ol>
Lang Lang himself will choose his favourites!
<a href="https://umusic.digital/goldberg-playlist/">Enter the competition here.</a>

Join Lang Lang for a special release-day presentation from Beijing

&ldquo;This is a very important dream-come-true moment&rdquo;, says Lang Lang.
The superstar pianist, who waited 20 years before playing Johann Sebastian Bach&rsquo;s monumental composition in public, has finally achieved his goal of recording the Goldberg Variations. The result of two decades of deep study and personal reflection, his vision of Bach&rsquo;s Aria and 30&nbsp;Variations is out now.
Lang Lang will mark the global release of his new album today with a special introduction from the historic Temple (东景缘, Dongjingyuan) in Beijing &ndash; site of the old imperial printing house and a former Buddhist shrine, meticulously renovated in recent years to preserve its multi-layered history. The pianist will perform extracts from the Goldberg Variations and talk about the intense personal connection he feels to Bach&rsquo;s music. You can watch it here:&nbsp;
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Also available from today is a super deluxe edition featuring not only Lang Lang&rsquo;s studio recording but a performance captured live in concert at Leipzig&rsquo;s Thomaskirche, where the composer worked and is buried. This coupling of studio and live recordings, a world first for the &ldquo;Goldbergs&rdquo;, offers fascinating insights into the art of interpretation. Lang Lang&rsquo;s performances intensify the work&rsquo;s breath-taking blend of contrapuntal complexity, diverse musical styles and life-affirming spontaneity.
Fuelled by a lifelong passion for one of the most challenging but rewarding compositions in the entire classical repertoire, Lang Lang&rsquo;s latest album represents a major milestone in an already stellar career. &ldquo;I would say performing and recording this concert leads me into the next level of piano playing,&rdquo; he explains. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m now 38 and, while that&rsquo;s not old, I think the time was right for a new stage in my artistic development,&rdquo; he adds. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve moved into new terrain with the Goldberg Variations and really immersed myself fully in this project. My goal as an artist is to keep becoming more self-aware and more knowledgeable, as well as to keep offering inspiration to others. It&rsquo;s an ongoing process, but this project has taken me a little further along the path.&rdquo;
Everything the pianist does is underpinned by his belief that &ldquo;music makes life better &ndash; it heals, unites and inspires, and it makes us better people&rdquo;. The Goldberg Variations is his latest musical offering and aims to encourage a new generation of fans to explore Bach&rsquo;s astonishing work.

Lang Lang records Bach’s Monumental Goldberg Variations

Lang Lang has realised a lifelong dream by recording Johann Sebastian Bach&rsquo;s monumental keyboard work, the Goldberg Variations, often described as &ldquo;a musical Everest&rdquo;. It will be released on 4 September in two complementary performances given by the pianist: the first was recorded in a single take in concert at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Bach&rsquo;s workplace for almost 30 years and site of his grave; the second was made soon after in the seclusion of the studio. The two recordings can be purchased together as part of a super deluxe edition, a world first simultaneous live and studio album release.
Listen to and watch a first pre-release track of the aria in both <a href="https://dg.lnk.to/Goldberg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">audio</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55hk75OgWDg%20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a>. Additionally we are offering an exclusive limited edition 4CD set of both live performance and studio recording together with an Art Card in our <a href="https://store.deutschegrammophon.com/p51-i0028948550425/lang-lang/bach-goldberg-variations-ltd-deluxe-edition-4cd-art-card-/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DG Store</a>.
&ldquo;I&rsquo;m now 38 and, while that&rsquo;s not old, I think the time was right for a new stage in my artistic development,&rdquo; comments Lang Lang. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve moved into new terrain with the Goldberg Variations and really immersed myself fully in this project. My goal as an artist is to keep becoming more self-aware and more knowledgeable, as well as to keep offering inspiration to others. It&rsquo;s an ongoing process, but this project has taken me a little further along the path.&rdquo;
The pianist&rsquo;s long journey into the soul of one of the greatest landmarks of world culture began with childhood lessons in Bach&rsquo;s music in his native China. He was just 17 when he played the Goldberg Variations from memory for the conductor and pianist Christoph Eschenbach, an unforgettable experience for both musicians. Lang Lang subsequently sought expert advice from leading interpreters of the composer&rsquo;s music, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt and harpsichordist and early keyboard specialist Andreas Staier among them.
Having allowed his relationship with the work to evolve naturally over time, Lang Lang finally felt ready to record Bach&rsquo;s great Aria and 30 variations. In early March 2020, shortly before beginning his studio sessions, he gave a poignant public performance of the work in Leipzig. &ldquo;Playing in the Thomaskirche, where Bach is buried, was unbelievably emotional for me,&rdquo; he recalls. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never felt as close to a composer as I did during that recital. The live version is very spontaneous, whereas in the studio version my playing is different &ndash; very considered and reflective. In a concert situation you experience the 100-minute work as a whole. In the studio you can focus on individual details and nuances, and of course that can affect the musical experience quite substantially.&rdquo;
It&rsquo;s believed that Bach wrote the Goldberg Variations for his pupil, a teenage harpsichord virtuoso named Johann Gottlieb Goldberg. The composer&rsquo;s first biographer reported that the piece was commissioned by the Russian ambassador to the Dresden court, an insomniac, as a &ldquo;soothing and cheerful&rdquo; work for young Goldberg to play during the night. Published in late 1741, it demands total spiritual focus from the performer.
&ldquo;This isn&rsquo;t just the most exceptional and creative work in the keyboard repertoire, it&rsquo;s also the most multidimensional,&rdquo; observes Lang Lang. &ldquo;It allows us to draw on everything we have within ourselves, but also makes us realise what&rsquo;s missing and what we still have to learn.&rdquo;

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PIANO BOOK 2 Modern Encores / Lang Lang

Piano Book 2 - Modern Encores

Star pianist Lang Lang's upcoming EP Modern Encores broadens the musical world of Piano Book 2 by offering a fresh selection of contemporary favourites, celebrated screen music and modern piano repertoire. The project features five highly accessible works spanning film music, contemporary classical music and musical theatre.
The full EP will be released digitally on 9 October.
Listen to a pre-release track, Mizuno&rsquo;s Blue Bird from the anime Naruto.

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