Lang Lang

Chinese virtuoso Lang Lang to set up ‘piano labs’ in UK schools
Exclusive: Plan follows schemes in US and China that have given 180,000 disadvantaged children access to keyboards
Dalya Alberge
18, Apr, 2022 @10:32 AM

Lang Lang review – Bach’s Goldbergs are smothered with love
This was a performance full of idiosyncrasies, of which some brought unexpected delights, but others felt perverse and mannered
Martin Kettle
13, Dec, 2021 @6:00 AM

Bach: Goldberg Variations review | Andrew Clements's classical album of the week
He is talented, but the mannerisms and slow tempi turn this into a glitzy exercise with too few flashes of understanding
Andrew Clements
10, Sep, 2020 @2:00 PM

Lang Lang: ‘Beethoven was a sausage lover’
The superstar Chinese pianist on the rigours of childhood practice, mum’s home cooking and sharing a flat with his dad and some mice
John Hind
16, Oct, 2016 @11:00 AM

Lang Lang: 'It's about the joy that music can give'
He started playing at two, retired at nine, staged a comeback at 10 – and now has his own perfume and duets with Pharrell. We meet piano superstar Lang Lang
Fiona Maddocks
07, Mar, 2016 @6:00 AM

Philharmonia/Salonen review – a highly persuasive performance
Lang Lang’s prodigious fingerwork gave Prokofiev’s third piano concerto tremendous impact, while Salonen oversaw a superb rendition of Scriabin’s Poem of Ecstasy
Martin Kettle
04, Dec, 2015 @1:06 PM

Chopin: Scherzos; Tchaikovsky: The Seasons review – charmless Lang Lang
With his monstrously aggressive approach, Lang Lang gives the Chopin little space to breathe, but he does show Tchaikovsky a little more respect
Andrew Clements
03, Dec, 2015 @7:00 PM

Philharmonia/Salonen review – formidable dexterity in a bizarrely uneven concert
The skilled conductor just about kept control of Lang Lang’s wayward piano and, despite a chorus lacking in power, the actors were exquisite
Tim Ashley
27, Nov, 2015 @11:27 AM

Lang Lang review – a finely disciplined performance
His tone was occasionally brittle, but Lang Lang winningly brought out the individual character of each month in Tchaikovksy’s collection The Seasons and impressed in challenging Chopin
George Hall
21, Apr, 2015 @11:06 AM

Facing the music: Lang Lang
Kempff and Kleiber, Rubinstein and Bernstein, and getting Happy with Pharrell – pianist Lang Lang on the music that inspires him
20, Apr, 2015 @6:00 AM

Lang Lang and Angela Hewitt join Edinburgh international festival lineup
Classical programme to include a Beethoven sonata series by pianist Rudolf Buchbinder and choral works celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus
Imogen Tilden
03, Feb, 2015 @3:23 PM

Lang Lang – review
Lang Lang's two-part programme of Mozart and Chopin pieces contained some instances of jaw-dropping virtuosity, writes George Hall
George Hall
17, Nov, 2013 @5:45 PM
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