Name: Artists at Google: Lang Lang | "The Chopin Album"
Uploaded: 2014-10-14T12:39:56.000Z
Duration: 54 min 48 s
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I'm very happy to be here for the second time.

But the first time I wasn't on this stage.

And so I prepared some morning songs for you to wake up.

I will start with one of the very beautiful nocturnes and

then one or two etudes, and then a Chopin waltz.

So hopefully, we will get really waked after 20 minutes

JEFF SPURGEON: Hello, I'm Jeff Spurgeon from WQXR, New York's

classical station, 105.9 FM, online at wqxr.org.

You may not know, because nobody told you,

He's a classical pianist, reasonably well known

And it's quite a wonderful thing to hear you play.

Let me ask you, what was your warm-up for

When's the last time you touched a piano?

And we were running like crazy down the street to get here.

And I'm really grateful that you are here

JEFF SPURGEON: It's extraordinary to have all that

music just in your hands, just at your command.

LANG LANG: By the way, Rubinstein said-- one of the

And he said he has 60 piano concertos in his head.

And basically during his 70s or 80s he said

Wake me up in the middle of the night-- like,

and I can play whatever piece you want, in concert level.

He had a little more practice over time than you so far.

In China, Lang Lang is credited with influencing some

40 million kids to take up classical piano.

Now, I know that 40 million is not maybe a

But still, it's a reasonably large number of people to

And when you think about all the pianos that have to be

made, and all the music that has to be printed, and all the

lessons that have to be paid for, I would say that you are,

without question, classical music's greatest job creator.

JEFF SPURGEON: I don't think there's anybody who's going to

Lang Lang's new album on the Sony label is "The Chopin

Album." It contains, at its heart, the Opus 25 set of a

dozen etudes, studies for piano, that you have been

Eight is when you started to play those things?

LANG LANG: Yeah, I started to play the Chopin

JEFF SPURGEON: Took them on the road when

LANG LANG: Yeah, I played the complete etudes when I was 13.

LANG LANG: And it was very tiring to play those pieces.

I mean, it drives me nuts and drives my neighbors nuts.

LANG LANG: I really feel bad about it, you know.

Recently, I started practicing at my apartment here and

I mean, there's a one neighbor who knows who I am, so she's

always like, oh, that's really wonderful.

But then another neighbor, I think, living downstairs--

because I always like to practice after 11:00 to find

JEFF SPURGEON: So you've been playing these since you were

eight, playing them in public since you were 13.

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