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 ...
Chinese pianist Lang Lang may have been playing J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations for close to three decades, but it was only this year that he felt confident enough to make a recording of the work – ...
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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It seems to be open season for recordings of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. There have been new recordings ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by For 20 years, the superstar pianist resisted playing this towering work in public. Now he’s releasing not one recording of it, but two. By Joshua ...
Owing to its Himalayan presence, Bach’s set of 30 keyboard variations is a daunting prospect for any recording artist. Lindsay Kemp speaks to Lang Lang – whose first recording of the work has just ...
Pianist Lang Lang will release his latest recording of Johann Sebastian Bach's monumental keyboard work, the Goldberg Variations, under the label of Deutsche Grammophon on Sept 4. Goldberg Variations ...
Pianist Lang Lang has announced plans for a live concert in Hong Kong in 2023 that will feature an unconventional pairing of Bach and Disney. “I really look forward to returning to the Hong Kong ...
Want to learn more about classical music but don't know where to begin? Grammy-nominated classical piano phenom Lang Lang believes that everyone can enjoy the music of the great masters, so he sat ...
The great pianist on how he “sees” colours in music, and which composers still remind him of his favourite childhood animated characters. Star pianist Lang Lang has revealed the wonderfully colourful ...
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 ...
Virtuoso pianist Lang Lang has conquered many musical mountains, but now he takes on what he considers his Mount Everest: Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Unable to perform for live audiences during the ...