Lang Lang
Tom Service talks to Chinese pianist Lang Lang about his pianistic heroes, including Rachmaninov, Horowitz and Gary Graffman and his growing involvement in music education.
Tom Service has a musical encounter with the Chinese pianist Lang Lang and finds out about his pianistic heroes including Sergei Rachmaninov, Vladimir Horowitz and Gary Graffman who is also his mentor, friend and neighbour in New York. He also talks about a new musical passion - the piano works of Isaac Albeniz and plays one live in the studio. Tom asks him about his growing involvement in music education through his Piano Academy teaching books and online tools as well as the piano school he's founded in Shenzhen, China.
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Why music can literally make us lose track of time
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