Lang Lang / Piano Recital
Fauré / Schumann / Chopin
About the happiness that playing music brings
An interviewer recently asked Lang Lang what his thoughts were about the word genius. The pianist answered that he thought nothing of it, adding that he was happy first and foremost to be a musician and to perform masterpieces from past and present for concert audiences. Lang Lang’s greatest aim in any concert, he went on, was to make a connection with the audience through music – to elicit emotions and to give something that people would remember.
It’s nearly three years since Lang Lang gave his last solo recital in Hamburg. With a well-balanced programme of Gabriel Fauré, Robert Schumann and Frédéric Chopin, he will once again do the honours in the Grand Hall of the Elbphilharmonie.
Performers
Lang Lang piano
Programme
Gabriel Fauré
Pavane op. 50
Robert Schumann
Kreisleriana / Eight Fantasiestücke for Piano, Op. 16
sowie ausgewählte Mazurken von
Encore:
Charlotte Sohy
»Romance sans paroles« / aus: Quatre pièces romantiques op. 30