Yundi Li :

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This is 20-year-old Chinese heart-throb Yundi Li's second recording and it confirms in many respects the impressions of his first, devoted to Chopin. It's rare to find such a young pianist with such sensitivity to the importance of tone, but Li's velvety sound remains exquisite, even when loud. His interpretation of Liszt's B-minor sonata may not be original, but it is coherent and heartfelt; and while the Rigoletto Paraphrase sounds more effortful, the song transcriptions - Liszt's own Liebesträume No. 3 and Schumann's Widmung - not only sing, but speak as well.

Li plays with a rare combination of virtuoso skill and poetic interpretations, each note he plays a reminder of why, in 2000, his music inspired the jury of the 14th International Chopin Piano Competition to give out the first top prize in 15 years to the then 18-year-old boy . . . "His maturity is obvious from the arrangements of the rhythmic transitions to the superb control of strength variations, which is known as the most difficult part of Chopin's compositions", (notes director Zhang Guoyong, who conducted the concert.) "It won't be long before he is a maestro," Zhang predicts. (Concert Review / Eastday. com / 19 January 2004)

Yundi Li: Liszt recital MP3
EAC/LAME MP3 VBR 320kb RAR 65.8Mb total (24.6 + 24.6 + 16.5mb)
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1- 4.• Piano Sonata in B minor, S. 178 (LW A179)
Composed by Franz Liszt
with Yundi Li
5.• Études d'exécution transcendante d'après Paganini (6), for piano, S. 140 (LW A52) No. 3. La Campanella (Allegretto)
Composed by Franz Liszt
with Yundi Li
6.• Widmung (Liebeslied), transcription for piano (after Schumann, I & II), S. 566 (LW A133)
Composed by Franz Liszt
with Yundi Li
7.• Liebesträume, notturno for piano No. 3 in A flat major ("O Lieb, so lang du lieben kannst"), S. 541/3 (LW A103/3)
Composed by Franz Liszt
with Yundi Li
8.• Tarantella, for piano (Années, suppl. to II/3), S. 162/3 (LW A197/3)
Composed by Franz Liszt
with Yundi Li
9.• Rigoletto: paraphrase de concert (after Verdi), for piano, S. 434 (LW A187)
Composed by Franz Liszt
with Yundi Li

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