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Lang Lang

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first: 2010-10-31
most recent: 2010-10-31
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“My second part of my studies was actually in America and now I live in New York and also Leiner Berstein. It's also an absolute musical idol for me and so here he's actually playing and conduct he's a real genius and Gershman is also a real genius so two geniuses combined they are the best representative of American classical music.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, in a way, I like it because for me there are a lot of incredible things in Western culture that China doesn't have. And in the same time there are many great Chinese traditions, great philosophy, and most beautiful poems. Nobody knows in the West. So in a way that, you know, if you combine Shakespeare to Confucius, there's something happens, there's something new comes out. For me it's a good advantage that I can learn a lot of great things from different cultures.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I like to bring everyone to China a little bit, and for Chinese this is even more famous than the national anthem. It's called the Yellow River Cantata, and what you're going to hear is a movement played actually by me. I really enjoyed the beginning of the bamboo flute songs. It's really beautiful.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I realize life is not just working on playing concert but also to have some free time and to be with family and friends and for example I'm back hometown Chen and I met my grandmother and she's now eighty six but I haven't seen her in five years So for me was very emotional.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's very important to cool down and to have a real concentrated time to learn Neo symphonies, new operas, and how I'm going to develop as a musician”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's actually quite nice that people writing about me whether it's good review or bad reviews. The intention is good, you know. I'm still quite young and there are a lot of things that I'm trying to work out and to improve”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it's a very famous episode Tom and Jerry's Playing Together on this piece. It was the first inspiration for me to start loving classical. At that time, I didn't know who Harvey or who List was, but obviously I know who Tom was.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Talking about dreams may should listen to the first inspiration from the Tom and Jerry cartoon The Cats Concerto This is the great Veladomir Harvest version playing part of the least Hungarian rhapsody number two.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But in the end I am not a former one driver. I am a classic composition, so that's why I am not worried about it. Because in the end, I don't become a pop star. I mean, I am what I am, which is playing Beethoven. But you can't always depend on only support from government or only in support from the concert hall. That resource is wonderful, but it's limited.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no, don't do it. So the sponsorship. Yeah, the sponsorship, I think it's a pretty interesting that many brands today are interested in supporting classical music and to support our initiatives like my foundations to helping children, providing scholarships to the very talented children. So I got very lucky with many sponsors that they are interested to inspire the next generation for music studies.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right, that's true, but when you were 17 years old, I think it's pretty cool to think a little bit about sports. Obviously, we do put ourselves most time into researching, analyzing behind the notes in the score. But we should bring other interest into music as well.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely, and because Michael Jordan was a very inspirational figure, I guess so much inspiration from his very creative playing and his signature movement. And here we go, Chicago.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So now we're going to hear the opening movement of the Chaikovsky piano journal number one in B flat major and played by Van Klyburn and somehow that piece, the Tchaikovsky concerto, opens many great pianist careers, including also Horowitz, for example, when he played with Toscanini. And not only he played with Toskanini, and then he also married Toscanini's daughter. So this piece became a kind of a bridge.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I just didn't prepare, so I just start playing. I don't know how wow I played. I only remember a little bit, but it was a special night. Let's put this way.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Tell me about that. Right. And then afterward, both Christophe and Tsarin asked me, oh, it seems like you are pretty high tonight. Do you have something else to play? I got a little hyper tonight, so I was like, oh yeah, what do you want? They said, do you play Bach? I said, yeah, I do play Bach. And they said, come on, let's play some gold burration. So I remember I started play the whole night.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was taking audition, and then after I played audition and Tsar and Meta came to me and said Do you ever concerto that you think you can play right away? I said, oh, maybe Chicago comes through. And then I went back to Philadelphia where I study. But the day after I in the morning I got a call from Rominia Festo and said, Oh, come back, step in. Azix turns waiting for you for your first rehearsal”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In order to have a career breaking grant, you need to have some chance to play in a very important concert, and his brother, Tsaran, was the one who gave me the first chance to play together with Christoph Eschermach at Chicago's Romania Festival in nineteen ninety nine, so it was really, really the moment when”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“First of all, I really admire his art, but also the whole family I am very close with his son and his brother. Actually his brother Dyermid, who's actually one of the person who discovered me when I was studying America.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is one of the world's most beautiful piano concertos. It's the Chopin piano concerto number one a second movement and this is played by the Bonifoma with the Israel Vehicle conducted by my favorite conductor Zubi Meta.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right. But the worst thing you have to do, I think. And I was nigh, I mean, that was scary. Sang God, I didn't really do it. I did, but my father stopped me. I mean, Sangha, I didn't jump the building and Sangha, he stopped me, you know.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, we had this big fight. And then I also went nuts. I start, you know, trying to destroy my own hands on the walls and somehow we didn't talk for a long time.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not really to her because he knows that she's a professor at Conservatory if it's too hard on her that will damage my future So he was hard on me.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In the beginning was very bad. I mean, beginning I started missing home, missing my friends, especially my mother. That's the really painful part. So that's why I think now these days I need my mom all the time to be with me just because my heart was really hurting when I was separated from my mom. At school it was not easy also people looking down at me from the countryside and pretty poor and kind of practice piano all the time kind of weird really the worst was not those things the worst was I had a piano teacher But every class, basically, she said you shouldn't play piano because you are not good. You're simply no talent. I mean, you will never make it. And then after six months she totally kicked me out.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that's father's love. I think that really shows his love for me and his support as a father. I got very emotional and I remember those things. But in the same time my father was very tough, so it was like real love and hate relationship.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I remember the first day I got so depressed because we moved into a real small and very poor and dirty neighborhood. I think six family sheer one toilet.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Now we're going to listen to my favorite singer Luciano Pavarati and his most famous son, Solomia. This one really inspired me to start listening to classical operas and Pavarati is the first classical tenor to reach out to meanings of people.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean seriously a piano become some real phenomenon in China I don't know whether it's to do with me or not but piano became the number one instrument. Of course I can walk to the street without security, but I mean I got a lot of picture taken. That's actually nice. When I go out for a coffee or something people stop and then take a picture or asking for autograph and sometimes I got mopped but I feel good because if classical musicians can also be loved by the general public it's a great thing.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean my parent had a huge dream, but that generation of people, I think, many of them just achieve their dream in halfway, you know, because the revolution really disturbed. after a reform time which is after seventy nine, we are actually only allowed to have one kid, the only child generation. So therefore, I mean, I felt in my generation that the parents put a lot of pressure on the kid because first of all many of them didn't achieve their dream And then now they have a chance, but only one chance. One kid only so you can imagine it's a very unusual time. But in other hands, if I have a four siblings like my mom or like five siblings like my father, then I don't think I will have the chance to study piano because that's your mouth with a lot of money and efforts and education and focus. So in a way it worked for me.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My ma utterly loves music. When she was very young she wanted to be a musician, but of course I mean in the end she turns to have a decent job but it's nothing exciting and nothing musical.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In the very beginning was okay, Ashley. The religionship became pretty tough when my mom stayed at home and my father quit his job to be with me in Beijing, to prepare to take audition to the best conservatory in China. At that time we became very intensive.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We're going to hear Chopin's vaults in D flat major. This is played by the great Arthur Minstein. This is one of the most famous vaults and this is the one that actually I played in the first recycle.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They don't really need to push me so hard because in the beginning I thought piano is like a toy and also in the beginning you know your parents not pushing you to practice so much in the beginning.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“eight hundred it was like kind of a young pioneers concert hall you know because that time is still quite early stage into a Chinese system”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean in the beginning probably they just thaw that I'm a play for fun but then at five I played my first recital and that moment I think my parents and also the teacher people realized that I have something special to share on stage”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, my parents bought one. They loved it, and doing a cultural revolution there's no chance to study classical music. So right after the revolution of my parents married in the very beginning of the eighties, first thing they bought was a piano. They told me that they spent six months of their salary To bow the first piano.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Am Sit down at the piano just for fun everyone was two and a half, you know, but it doesn't mean anything just sit down and then”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I am actually choosing my childhood musical icon, Michael Jackson, and his biggest hit siller. It's quite interesting. It's really the most exciting track, I remember, but in the same time, this track is actually happened in 1982, which is the year I was born.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I actually didn't really think about four billion people when I was performing. But I remembered of first rehearsal. I had a total goosebumps I was so overwhelmed and it's a city in Beijing which I kind of grew up and had a lot of good memories and also a lot of disappointment memories so it's a place that I have a lot of emotion for and to go on to this stage is actually the biggest stage ever for me so it's just really really quite special”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“five years old and she asked me When can I go home? Can I get off the bench? Can I dance a little bit? I said no no no your job is to sit with me unfortunately but sit with me and playing some music I need to come”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was a real special night twenty thousand performers that night, you know, performing, and I remember I need to babysit the little girl who's playing next to me. And she's so cute.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I second day, I would say Yeah, for me airport is like a bus station, you know, I mean people take a bus to work and I take plane to work. It's the same thing. And I'm used to this kind of life. So for me, or talking to my mom, she's actually traveling with me.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I actually gave 105 concerts plus fifteen charity concerts a year. So overall I'm playing around one hundred forty.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think my competitor is actually myself, and if the focus is on the music, then I think everything will come. But obviously when I was five, I thought there is a world number one in piano playing, but then I realized that's a fairy tale.”
2010-10-31 · Desert Island Discs · Lang Lang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source