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‘Feed The Birds’
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‘The Bare Necessities’
Lang Lang is always full of surprises. Two years ago he made a thoughtful, individual and articulate recording of the Goldberg Variations of Bach. The album received mixed reviews but its beauty of tone in particular won praise across the critical spectrum.
Whatever we were expecting as a sequel – the Diabellis? A heroic Prokofiev concerto? – it wasn’t a homage to Walt Disney. Here we have an unashamedly schmaltzy, bells-and whistles collection of 27 songs and arrangements. Some of them are swung, jazzy numbers such as ‘The Bare Necessities’ from Others are positively Lisztian, notably a fantasia. The making of album in four different
