★★★★★
"YUNDI is back". Some rock stars every now and then accomplish a comeback. So can classical pianists it seems. For the 30-year-old Chinese superstar Yundi Li the comeback might refer to a couple of things. First of all, a return to his first label, but also, one hopes, a return to his initial form and inspiration. This new Beethoven disc aims at both...
- www.classical.net
2013-05-10
★★★★★
Yundi Li's direct, sharply etched, upbeat account of Mozart's wonderful C major K. 330 sonata would do any pianist proud. Its virtues particularly hit home when heard next to Lang Lang's recent, impossibly arch performance (also on DG). Given Li's formidable technical proficiency and fine musical imagination, it comes as no surprise to hear him make light of Carnaval's idiosyncratic difficulties as well as explore inner counterpoints and alternate voicings when material repeats...
- www.classicstoday.com
2009-06-06
★★★★★
In the main, Yundi Li's Liszt recital proves far more interesting and absorbing than his relatively faceless Chopin debut disc. There's marvelous playing throughout, along with baffling moments. The latter include La Campanella. Li begins this piece deliberately, taking time to shade the right-hand jumps with coolly calculated hairpin dynamics. He ritards at phrase endings when difficult passages lurk around the corner (to ensure accuracy?)...
- www.classicstoday.com
2009-06-06
★★★★★
Comparisons between Yundi Li and Lang Lang, both young, male, Asian, aggressively hyped, and on DG, seem inevitable, and if I had to choose between them I would take Yundi Li in a minute. His Liszt Sonata was world-class, and so is this new set of Chopin Scherzos. Of course, competition in this music is fierce, most particularly from Rubinstein, Pogorelich, and in the Second Scherzo, Argerich...
- www.classicstoday.com
2009-06-06
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