Artist: Eric Lu
Album: Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 – Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2 & Ballade No. 4 (Live)
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2018
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 48 kHz
Duration: 01:14:04
Total Tracks: 8
Total Size: 696 MB

Tracklist:

1-1. Eric Lu – Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52 (Live) (11:47)
1-2. Eric Lu – Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35: I. Grave – Doppio movimento (Live) (08:09)
1-3. Eric Lu – Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35: II. Scherzo (Live) (07:18)
1-4. Eric Lu – Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35: III. Marche funèbre (Lento) [Live] (10:05)
1-5. Eric Lu – Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35: IV. Finale (Presto) [Live] (02:08)
1-6. Eric Lu – Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58: I. Allegro moderato (Live) (19:09)
1-7. Eric Lu – Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58: II. Andante con moto (Live) (05:09)
1-8. Eric Lu – Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58: III. Rondo (Vivace) [Live] (10:17)

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Warner Classics and Askonas Holt are proud to announce the signing of 20-year old American pianist, Eric Lu, winner and Dame Fanny Waterman Gold Medallist at the prestigious Leeds International Piano Competition 2018. As part of this year’s coveted prize the winner receives worldwide management with Askonas Holt – one of the world’s leading arts management agencies, and an international album release on Warner Classics – one of the foremost global classical music recording companies. This is the first time a record label and a management agency partner with ‘The Leeds’ to create a ground-breaking portfolio prize designed with long-term career development in mind. The recording deal is a corner-stone of its new prize package, designed to redefine what a music competition can offer young performers. Both, Warner Classics and Askonas Holt, aim to ensure that the winner has the opportunities, support and advice to develop a significant long-term international career.Pianist Eric Lu, the Massachusetts-raised son of Chinese immigrants, has been winning competitions since he was 13, and he has won two big ones: the Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw and, in 2018 at age 20, the Leeds International Piano Competition in Britain. His prize for the latter was this release of his competition performances on Warner Classics. The Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58, was his finals entry, and he played the Chopin Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35, in the semifinals. Some competition winners are good at pleasing judges, while others please audiences, and you get a bit of both here. There are some problems: the very slow funeral march of the Chopin tends to collapse under its own weight. And Lu is miked too closely; the coughing of someone in the front rows is captured clearly just at the critical moment where the tritone scales build to a climax in the slow movement of the Beethoven concerto. But the Beethoven is very strong: Lu has power and clean technique, and he interacts spontaneously with the Hallé Orchestra under Edward Gardner. This is something that eludes young pianists, and it gives his performance a charismatic X factor that seems, judging from the included applause at the end, to have made an impact on the restrained British crowds. The Chopin sonata, given a big, Beethovenian reading, and the Ballade in F minor, Op. 52, are a bit more conventionalm, but Lu is plainly a young pianist to watch.