Disc No.

31
Lang Lang, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Barenboim - First Piano Concertos
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor, Op.23
Felix Mendelssohn - Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.25
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Catalog#: 477 8409
Tracklist
Composed by - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1. Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor, Op.23
estoso - Allegro con spirito
[23:01]
2. Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor, Op.23
imo - Tempo I
[8:13]
3. Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor, Op.23
7]
Composed by - Felix Mendelssohn
4. Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.25 - 1.
1]
5. Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.25 - 2.
6. Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.25 - 3.
[6:46]

- 1. Allegro non troppo e molto ma

- 2. Andantino Semplice - Prestiss
- 3. Allegro con fuoco

[7:1

Molto allegro con fuoco

[7:3

Andante
[6:32]
Presto - Molto allegro e vivace

Credits
Composed by - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1-3), Felix Mendelssohn (4-6)
Conductor - Daniel Barenboim
Performer - Lang Lang (Piano)
Orchestra - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Executive Producer - Martin T:son Engstroem
Recording Coordinatir - Matthias Spindler
Recording Producer - Christian Gansch
Recording Engineer - Stephan Flock
Photography [Cover] - Andrew Eccles
In his debut recording for Deutsche Grammophon there is clear logic, both musica
l and personal in Lang Lang's pairing of Romantic concertos by Tchaikovsky and M
endelssohn, the artist's two calling cards. The Mendelssohn was the first concer
to he ever played in public, at the age of seven; and he sealed his extraordinar
y reputation when, at 17, he played the first movement of the Tchaikovsky at the
Ravinia Festival in Chicago as a last-minute replacement for an ailing Andre Wa
tts - a breakthrough, "a very important way to open my career."