Liszt: Piano Works Yundi Li

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Album info

Album-Release:
2003

HRA-Release:
06.09.2015

Label: Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

Artist: Yundi Li

Composer: Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

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  • Franz Liszt (1811-1886):
  • 1Lento assai - Allegro energico03:40
  • 2Grandioso - Recitativo -08:44
  • 3Andante sostenuto -06:57
  • 4Allegro energico - Andante sostenuto - Lento assai10:48
  • 5No.3 In G Sharp Minor - La Campanella04:44
  • 6Widmung, S.566 After Schumann03:39
  • 7Liebestraum No.3 In A Flat, S.541 No.304:37
  • 83. Tarantella09:07
  • 9Concert Paraphrase On Rigoletto, S.434 After Verdi's Opera06:26
  • Total Runtime58:42

Info for Liszt: Piano Works

Er soll das neue Klavierwunder sein und ist die Hoffnung seiner Plattenfirma; blutjung, smart, beide Geschlechter anziehend und hübsch dazu -- der Chinese Yundi Li. Er sagt, mit dem charakteristischen Selbstbewusstsein seiner Generation: 'Ich will ein neuer (Krystian) Zimerman werden.' Gewonnen hat Li den renommierten Chopin-Wettbewerb in Warschau 2000, wie einst sein Idol Krystian Zimerman im Jahr 1975. Und aus jedem, der ihn gewann, ist auch etwas geworden.

„Yundi Lis Repertoire ist auf dieser Aufnahme ganz auf Liszt konzentriert. Die berühmte Sonate h-moll, jenes Robert Schumann gewidmete Al-Fresco-Kolossalkunstwerk, ist unter anderen dabei, dazu die 'Sechs Etüden nach Paganini', die Rigoletto-Paraphrase und manches Notturno. Lis Technik ist ohne Fehl und Tadel, brillant und glänzend wie Politur. Man staunt über seine Fingerfertigkeit, seine Schnelligkeit, seine Gewandheit. Doch dem weiten Atem, der seelischen Spannung der Sonate h-moll kommt Li nicht bei; er vermag zwar das ausgefuchst verschachtelte und sehr beziehungsreiche Werk zusammenzuhalten, aber man vermisst emotionale Glut und vielleicht so etwas wie ein künstlerisches Bekenntnis. Vielleicht muss man einfach älter, und auch seelisch erfahrener für dieses Werk sein. Gerade der von Li so bewunderte Krystian Zimerman hatte seinerzeit eine exemplarische Deutung dieses Werkes vorgebracht. Die weniger komplexen aber technisch nicht minder schweren Etüden liegen Li interpretatorisch besser in der Hand; man höre sich die dritte Etüde 'La campanella' mit dem berühmten Glöckchen-Thema an. Denn ein hochbegabter Klavierakrobat ist Li ohne Zweifel.“ (Teresa Pieschacón Raphael)

'Hört man diese Einspielung der h-Moll-Sonate von Liszt, ist man regelrecht erschlagen von der Souveränität, mit der dieser Zwanzigjährige eine der schwersten Sonaten der Klavierliteratur musiziert.' (AUDIO)

Yundi Li, Klavier

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Yundi Li
Internationally acclaimed pianist YUNDI was propelled onto the international stage when he won first prize at the XIV Chopin International Piano Competition at the age of 18, becoming the youngest and first Chinese winner in the history of the prestigious competition. Since then, he has been regarded as a leading exponent of Chopin’s music. In recognition of his contribution to Polish culture, the Government of Poland presented a Gold Medal for Merit to Culture ‘Gloria Artis’ to YUNDI in 2010.

On his regular recital tours, YUNDI has performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall (New York), Royal Festival Hall (London), Musikverein Vienna, Alte Opera Frankfurt, Herkulessaal (Munich), Konzerthaus Berlin, Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, Salle Pleyel (Paris), Mariinsky Concert Hall (St Petersburg), National Centre for Performing Arts (Beijing), Seoul Arts Centre and Suntory Hall (Tokyo). Orchestras and conductors with whom he has collaborated include the Berliner Philharmoniker and Seiji Ozawa, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester and Riccardo Chailly, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Daniel Harding, Rotterdam Philharmonic and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Philharmonia Orchestra and Andrew Davis, Mariinsky Orchestra and Valery Gergiev, and the Israel Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel. He has also performed with the Vienna Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra (Washington), Philadelphia Orchestra, Toronto Symphony and NHK Symphony.

YUNDI’s 2012/13 season opens with Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and Vassily Sinaisky. He returns to Malaysia, Taiwan and Korea before embarking on a recital tour in Europe which includes performances in London, Paris, Munich, Frankfurt, Berlin, Prague and Moscow.

In addition to his activities on the concert platform, YUNDI is also passionate about humanitarian work, which includes acting as an ambassador of the Red Cross Society of China and for his hometown of Chongqing. Equally committed to promoting classical music in an educational context, YUNDI is one of the pioneers of musical education in China, where his success story has played a crucial role in millions of children learning the piano. He has also given masterclasses at the Royal College of Music, University of Cambridge and Qinghua University in Beijing. In Autumn 2012, he was appointed Associate Dean and Professor of the Piano Faculty at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music

YUNDI has released nine CDs worldwide on Deutsche Grammophon and EMI Classics. In 2007, he became the first Chinese pianist to record live with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Seiji Ozawa. This Deutsche Grammophon disc met with rave reviews and was named ‘Editor’s Choice’ by Gramophone magazine. On EMI Classics, he has released the complete Chopin Nocturnes, Live in Beijing (the first live recording to emerge from the National Centre for Performing Arts in Beijing since its inception in 2007) and Red Piano, an album celebrating piano music written by Chinese composers. YUNDI’s next CD, a recording of three of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, will be released on Deutsche Grammophon in Spring 2013.

Born in Chongqing, YUNDI began piano studies at age seven. He subsequently trained at the Shenzhen Arts School and Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover.

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