UTGIVELSE

YUNDI

Chopin: Nocturnes

Yundi Li, the brilliant young Chinese pianist has proved a technically astounding pianist who is by turns elegant and rambunctious, coolly expressive and white hot.'' (The New York Times)

''Deeply thoughtful and formidably virtuosic, he makes light work of [the concerto's] nightmarish technical demands. ... The colossal first movement's combined development and cadenza is played with an authority that will make lesser mortals pale with envy and admiration.''
(* Gramophone)

EMI Classics has signed the ''superlative young Chinese pianist''* Yundi, formerly known as Yundi Li, winner of the 14th International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. Appropriately, Yundi's first EMI release will be the complete Chopin Nocturnes, released to commemorate the composer's 200th birthday in 2010. Yundi and EMI Classics together plan to record the complete works for solo piano by Chopin.

Yundi has performed with most of the major orchestras in North America, Europe, Russia, Israel and the Far East with conductors including Seiji Ozawa, Lorin Maazel, Gustavo Dudamel, Valery Gergiev, James Levine, Riccardo Chailly and Yuri Temirkanov.

He has received particular distinction for his interpretations of concertos by Chopin, Liszt, Prokofiev, Ravel and Tchaikovsky. His recitals throughout North America, including New York's Carnegie Hall; England, including London's Queen Elizabeth Hall; France, including Paris's Théâtre du Châtelet and Salle Pleyel; the Salzburg Festival; Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Luxembourg and across Asia, have touched audiences and critics alike.