Browse: Yundi (piano)

A typical pairing of the Concertos played by Yundi, known for his Chopin interpretations. Reliable, technically precise, these are careful, considered accounts with virtuosic flair. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Yundi] gives fluid, deeply felt performances with musicianship that puts his compatriot Lang Lang in the shade. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2010, 3 out of 5 stars More…

it is the Beethoven which is by some distance the more effectively realised. Yundi's incisiveness of touch and certainty of manner is strikingly apparent in what is an unashamedly keyboard-led... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2014 More…

on this showing he is significantly more attuned to Beethoven than Chopin, his self-proclaimed favourite composer...we seldom hear these works played with such unmannered restraint: the slow... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

In many respects the opening work - and Andante spianato and Grand Polonaise - shows him at his finest, with dizzying passagework, fine filigree and a high glitter content (entirely appropriate... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2011 More…

Yundi's performance is accomplished, as are his performances of the other works in this programme, but, though some have a bucolic charm, most are pervasively saccharine. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…