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Lang Lang at a concert (2010)

Lang Lang ( Chinese  郎 朗 , Pinyin Láng Lǎng , IPA : [lɑ̌ŋ lɑ̀ŋ]; born June 14, 1982 in Shenyang , China ) is a Chinese pianist .

Life

An anecdote has it that Lang Lang saw Tom and Jerry on television at the age of two 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 is said to have awakened in him the desire to learn to play the piano. So his parents saved up for piano lessons with Zhu Ya-Fen at the conservatory in his hometown, which he received at the age of three. At the age of five he won the Shenyang piano competition and played in front of a public audience for the first time. In the following years he received further prizes at youth competitions in Beijing , later also in Germany and Japan. At the age of nine he began studying music with Zhao Ping-Guo at the Central Music Academy in Beijing. At the age of eleven he won his first international prize at the fourth international youth competition in Ettlingen , Germany.

From 1997 to 2002 he studied at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia with Gary Graffman . Lang achieved his breakthrough in 1999 at the age of 17 when he was allowed to step in for the indisposed André Watts at the last minute at the Galaxy of Stars at the Ravinia Festival and played Tchaikovsky's 1st Piano Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Christoph Eschenbach . In the following years, Lang was supported by Christoph Eschenbach. In 2001, he debuted with the Piano Concerto by Edvard Grieg on the side of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra , conducted by Yuri Temirkanov in Carnegie Hall .

Since then, Lang Lang has completed numerous concert tours and played under conductors such as Daniel Barenboim , Christoph Eschenbach, Sir Simon Rattle , Lorin Maazel and James Levine . At the opening concert of the London Proms in July 2003, he played Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto under Leonard Slatkin . In 2011 Lang Lang performed for the sixth time since 2001 at the Last Night of the Proms , where he played Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major .

His solo debut on November 7, 2003 in the sold out Carnegie Hall caused a sensation. The DVD documentary of this concert, Lang Lang - Live at Carnegie Hall , directed by Benedict Mirows , was awarded the 2005 Echo Klassik for Best Music DVD. Lang Lang also appeared in the award-winning German-Austrian documentary Pianomania , directed by Lilian Franck and Robert Cibis . The film has already premiered in over 20 countries around the world and is part of the Goethe-Institut catalog. As part of the Beijing Music Festival 2010 he played the piano concerto Ruin and Memory composed for him by the Canadian composer Howard Shore . For Shore's soundtrack to David Cronenberg's drama A Dark Desire , he recorded his piano arrangement of Wagner's Siegfried Idyll .

In 2015 he worked with Jean-Michel Jarre on a song from his Electronica Volume 1 project.

From mid-2017 to mid-2018, he had to take a year off because of tendinitis .

In June 2019, Lang Lang married the German-Korean pianist Gina Alice Redlinger .

Repertoire and reception

Lang Lang played piano concertos repeatedly in the early years of his career, for example the first by Tchaikovsky and the second and third by Rachmaninoff . According to critics, the recordings show both his skills and remaining weaknesses.

While his earlier recordings at Telarc are said to have lacked a bit of artistic individuality, certain mannerisms emerged in his recital recording with Mozart's C major sonata KV 330 and Chopin's gloomy B minor sonata . Some people are bothered by his attention to detail, which sometimes hinders the flow of the music and the construction of large arches.

The enormous potential of the Chinese, on the other hand, becomes clear in the furious Réminiscences de Don Juan of his Carnegie recital. With his sense of sound he play the impressionistic tinged Eight Memories in Watercolor colors of his friend composer Tan Dun in a variety of shades.

Special appearances

Lang Lang at the 2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony

On June 15, 2005, Lang Lang performed Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor under Zubin Mehta at the Concert for Europe in the grounds of the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna .

On January 27, 2006, on the occasion of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 250th birthday, he played his C minor concerto in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing .

On June 6, 2006 he played 3 orchestras and stars together with the Bavarian State Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra as well as Plácido Domingo and Diana Damrau at the opening concert of the Soccer World Cup .

He became known to a broader German-speaking audience when he appeared on the television program Wetten, dass ..? On September 30, 2006 . was a guest. He lost his bet and played Konstantin Wecker's Kleines Herbstlied in the foyer of a hotel to redeem the bet .

In 2007 Lang Lang made a guest appearance on Mike Oldfield's album Music of the Spheres . As part of the European Football Championship in 2008 , he played for ZDF on the Bregenz lake stage together with Christopher von Deylen, alias Schiller .

On August 8, 2008, he played at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Summer Olympics .

On December 10, 2009, he played at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for Barack Obama in Oslo.

He accompanied Jackie Chan on the piano to the song for the Expo 2010 in Shanghai .

Lang Lang played My Fatherland , a song from the movie Battle on Shanggangling Mountain , at the Washington State Dinner in January 2011 . The British daily Daily Mail rated this as a scandal, as it had to be seen as an expression of anti-American sentiments.

On June 4, 2012, he played at the BBC's Diamond Jubilee Concert on the occasion of Queen Elizabeth II's diamond jubilee .

On January 26, 2014 he appeared together with the American heavy metal band Metallica at the Grammy Awards 2014 , where they played the song One together.

On June 28, 2015 he performed at the traditional season-end concert of the Berliner Philharmoniker in the Berlin Waldbühne . The orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle and UN Ambassador for Peace Lang Lang donated a total of 60,000 euros to UNICEF .

Awards

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK
2004 Lang Lang Live at Carnegie Hall DE69 (4 weeks)
DE 		- - -
2005 Piano Concerto No. 2 DE62 (2 weeks)
DE 		- - -
2006 Memory DE56 (7 weeks)
DE 		- - -
Dragon songs DE38 (10 weeks)
DE 		AT68 (2 weeks)
AT 		- -
2007 Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4 DE48 (6 weeks)
DE 		- - -
2008 Dreams of China DE41 (9 weeks)
DE 		- - -
Chopin - The Piano Concertos DE86 (4 weeks)
DE 		- - -
2010 The best of Lang Lang DE78 (1 week)
DE 		- - -
Lang Lang Live in Vienna DE30 (4 weeks)
DE 		AT37 (4 weeks)
AT 		CH49 (5 weeks)
CH 		-
2011 Liszt - My Piano Hero DE48 (5 weeks)
DE 		AT23 (5 weeks)
AT 		CH44 (4 weeks)
CH 		UK82 (2 weeks)
UK
with the Vienna Philharmonic & Valery Gergiev
2012 The Chopin album DE41 (6 weeks)
DE 		AT41 (4 weeks)
AT 		CH62 (2 weeks)
CH 		-
2014 Summer Night Concert 2014 - Summer Night Concert - AT16 (3 weeks)
AT 		- -
with the Vienna Philharmonic & Christoph Eschenbach
The Mozart album DE33 (12 weeks)
DE 		AT11 (12 weeks)
AT 		CH49 (7 weeks)
CH 		-
with the Vienna Philharmonic & Nikolaus Harnoncourt
2015 Lang Lang in Paris DE90 (1 week)
DE 		- - -
2016 New York Rhapsody DE64 (1 week)
DE 		AT36 (1 week)
AT 		CH54 (2 weeks)
CH 		-
2019 Piano Book DE8 (7 weeks)
DE 		AT6 (6 weeks)
AT 		CH13 (7 weeks)
CH 		UK44 (1 week)
UK

More albums

  • 2001: Recorded Live At Seiji Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood
  • 2002: Piano Concerto 3 & Etudes
  • 2013: Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 - Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Sir Simon Rattle & Berliner Philharmoniker )
  • 2013: Lang Lang - The Highest Level Prokofiev 3 & Bartok 2
  • 2014: Lang Lang at the Royal Albert Hall
  • 2015: Lang Lang in Versailles
  • 2016: New York Rhapsody - - Live from Lincoln Center

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE
2008 Time for Dreams
Longing 		DE19 (8 weeks)
DE
with Schiller

Web links

Commons : Lang Lang  - collection of images

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  1. ↑ Biographical information from: Ingo Harden, Gregor Willmes PianistenProfile 600 performers: Their biography, their style, their recordings, Lang Lang, p. 416, Bärenreiter, Kassel 2008
  2. ^ Program of the Last Night of the Proms 2011
  3. ↑ http://www.vevo.com/watch/jean-michel-jarre/Jean-Michel-Jarre-with-Lang-Lang-Track-Story/UK9LA1401128
  4. ↑ Comeback for Lang Lang after a long break , focus.de, July 8, 2018
  5. ↑ Lang Lang just married pianist Gina Alice Redlinger - and the photos are ridiculously glamorous ( en ) Retrieved on June 3, 2019.
  6. ↑ a b c Ingo Harden, Gregor Willmes PianistenProfile 600 performers: their biography, their style, their recordings, Lang Lang, p. 417, Bärenreiter, Kassel 2008.
  7. ^ Lang Lang biography on www.musikmarkt.de ( Memento from December 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ^ Daily Mail, January 23, 2011 .
  9. ↑ Rolling Stone, January 26, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Waldbühne concert by the Berlin Philharmonic for UNICEF.
  11. ↑ echoklassik.de - Prize Winner 2013 ( Memento from June 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on October 6, 2013
  12. ↑ rbb-online.de - Bambi Awards 2014, accessed on November 14, 2014
  13. ↑ ECHO Klassik 2015 - Instrumentalist of the Year (piano) ( Memento from October 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Article dated October 18, 2015, accessed October 19, 2015.
  14. ↑ ECHO Klassik 2015 - Special Prize for the Lang Lang International Music Foundation ( Memento from October 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Article dated October 18, 2015, accessed October 19, 2015.
  15. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK
personal data
SURNAME Long long
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 郎 朗 (Chinese); Láng Lǎng (Pinyin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese pianist
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Shenyang , People's Republic of China