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MUSIC REVIEW; Pianism at the Poetic End, Not the Physical
By ALLAN KOZINN
Published: April 28, 2004, Wednesday
At least in the short term, handicappers in the piano world are likely to think of Yundi Li as the anti-Lang Lang, in the way that Serkin was the anti-Horowitz.
Both Mr. Li and Mr. Lang are Chinese and 21, and both began to dazzle audiences when they were teenagers. They are also signed to the same record label, Deutsche Grammophon. But where Mr. Lang has established himself as a firebrand whose performances are wrapped in a lively and sometimes over-the-top physicality, Mr. Li deals in a more poetic, deeply considered pianism, delivered without extraneous gestures and body language.
One thing Mr. Li showed in his New York recital debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Saturday evening was that thoughtful interpretation can be every bit as virtuosic and exciting as the showier variety.
Mr. Li won the gold medal at the Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw in 2000, so it was natural that Chopin had pride of place on his program, with the first half devoted to the four scherzos. There were surprises and individual touches from the opening bars of the B minor Scherzo (Op. 20), the first in the set. Where other pianists often rest a foot on the sustain pedal in the opening, letting Chopin's ascending figuration coalesce as a vibrant haze, Mr. Li kept his sound unusually dry and unclouded. This was ear-catching and slightly odd at first, but it was impossible not to admire the clarity of texture that this approach produced.
That clarity remained a hallmark of Mr. Li's playing throughout the recital, and it invariably illuminated works that -- like the scherzos and the Liszt sonata, in the second half -- are heard so frequently that a listener can mistakenly assume that they hold no more mystery. The Liszt, which is the centerpiece of his most recent recording, was vividly characterized and presented more as unfolding Faustian drama than as an extended, abstract fantasy.
Striking, too, was the balance of freedom and literalness in Mr. Li's readings. His tempos were extremely flexible, often on the brisk side, but he lingered where the music demanded a more supple, singing tone. The mercurial Scherzo No. 4 in particular benefited from this fluidity, which gave equal weight to its flightiness and its stretches of wrenching, melancholy writing. And where Chopin and Liszt provided a bar of rests or even a shorter rest within a bar, he invariably used the silence as a dramatic element, not just as a pause.
For his encores Mr. Li played two Liszt showpieces, ''La Campanella'' and the ''Rigoletto'' Paraphrase, each with an inviting combination of delicacy and muscle. Between them he offered a set of rippling variations on ''Sunflowers,'' a Chinese folk song.
CLASSiCAL MUSIC REVIEW; Youth and Passion, Chopin and Dionysus
By ANNE MIDGETTE
Published: April 30, 2005, Saturday
In the current constellation of piano talent, there are two bright Chinese stars, both in their early 20's, both with the backing of Deutsche Grammophon. Conventional wisdom has cast Lang Lang as the Dionysian, and Yundi Li as the Apollonian member of this putative fraternity.
Yet Mr. Li's solo recital on Thursday night at Alice Tully Hall showed him to have a healthy streak of the Dionysian, too. The opening of Schumann's ''Carnaval'' was so wild as to seem a positive Bacchanal; and Mr. Li's virtuosity was coupled, not to say tempered, with youthful energy, some emoting and a couple of errant notes.
Mr. Li looks and sounds young. With fuzzy hair and concert attire that managed to look slightly disheveled, he briefly acknowledged the fervent accolades of a preponderantly Chinese-speaking audience before he sat at the keyboard and nonchalantly produced playing of prodigious talent and still-developing maturity. You couldn't fault his finger work or the musical understanding that created deliberate idiosyncrasies, from his rubatos to his mining of inner voices to the point of near-discord. You could, however, fault the hard, jangly tone of the Steinway he was saddled with, even if it gave a bit of fortepiano flavor to his clear, lucid account of Mozart's Sonata No. 10.
It was odd to find Mr. Li's playing at once effusive and a bit hollow. ''Carnaval'' in particular blended subtlety with romantic excess, and seemed a work in progress. Chopin has had a central role in Mr. Li's career. He won first prize at the Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw in 2000; Chopin was the focus of his most recent Deutsche Grammophon disc; and works by Chopin occupied half of this program (with the B-flat minor Scherzo replacing the scheduled ''Rhapsodie Espagnole'' by Liszt). This piece and the ''Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante'' were confident, able and virtuosic. But as he relaxed into his encore (''Sunflowers,'' a Chinese piece) and took his final bows with a sense of duty discharged, one thought, appreciatively, that he will continue to get better as he grows up.
CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEW; Young People Strut Their Stuff
By ALLAN KOZINN
Published: April 6, 2005, Wednesday
The American Youth Symphony, a Los Angeles training orchestra for musicians between 16 and 25, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this season, and among its festivities was a visit to Carnegie Hall on Saturday evening. The program was, as such programs tend to be, a carefully rounded demonstration of the orchestra's strengths.
Led by Alexander Treger, the orchestra's music director, the program opened with Lera Auerbach's ''Dreams and Whispers of Poseidon,'' a new work written for the ensemble. Ms. Auerbach, at 30, is an eloquent composer who handles an orchestra easily; in fact, for this picturesque score, with its contrasting sections of churning depths and lighter, harp-tinted dreaminess, she calls for some unusual additions, including a theremin, a musical saw and an expanded percussion array. Her language is accessible and often lyrical, but it is also invitingly sophisticated, and it yielded a work that unquestionably evoked the imagery of the title.
Mr. Treger led the orchestra in an appropriately vivid reading, and then let his players relax a bit in Chopin's Piano Concerto No.1. Here, the orchestral component was supportive if undistinguished. But the real focus was Yundi Li's fluid reading of the solo line. Mr. Li is a poetic player with a sensitive touch (but also ample power when he needs it), as well as an ear for textural clarity and an impeccable sense of line. Those qualities, notable on his handful of recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, served the Chopin perfectly.
With the spotlight to itself again, the orchestra gave a superb performance of the Tchaikovsky Fifth Symphony. Jenny Kim's rendering of the French horn solo in the second movement was note-perfect, and her colleagues among the brass and woodwinds contributed some admirably robust ensemble work. The orchestra responded to Mr. Treger's brisk tempos with all the energy and precision a listener would expect of a fully professional ensemble.