Lang Lang & Chopin have long been a winning combination, with the 2012 release of The Chopin Album being his most successful Sony album to date. Tchaikovsky has also featured prominently in Lang Lang’s career -  most notably in his international breakthrough at age 17 performing Tchaikovsky’s first piano concerto at Ravinia’s “Gala of the Century” with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and subsequent first recording on Deutsche Gramophone a few years later. 

It has been Lang Lang’s life-long dream to perform in Versailles’ Hall of Mirrors, which led to a special recital there last month and the studio recording of the album in Paris. Having performed this recital programme all over the world, Lang Lang now feels ready to record it in Paris – a city he loves & feels at home in. 

Already celebrated worldwide for his Chopin interpretation, Lang Lang selects the four virtuosic and well known “Scherzi” to display his interpretative ability and renowned technical command. 

His programme also champions the rarer Tchaikovsky “Seasons”–12 works commissioned by a Russian music magazine in 1875.