Chopin: Preludes, Op. 28 & Schumann: Ghost Variations
Eric Lu (piano)
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2020, Instrumental Choice
Eric Lu is a young pianist blessed with what sounds like an ‘old soul’…The programme is both effective and unsettling…Lu’s playing is in a rare class – one that has a vacancy since Radu Lupu’s...
Chopin: Preludes, Op. 28 & Schumann: Ghost Variations
Eric Lu (piano)
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2020, Instrumental Choice
Eric Lu is a young pianist blessed with what sounds like an ‘old soul’…The programme is both effective and unsettling…Lu’s playing is in a rare class – one that has a vacancy since Radu Lupu’s...
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The 22 year-old winner and Dame Fanny Waterman Gold Medallist at the prestigious Leeds International Piano Competition 2018 begins his Warner Classics exclusive contract with an exquisite new recital featuring Chopin’s 24 Préludes, Schumann’s Ghost Variations, and Brahms’ Intermezzo No. 1, Op. 117
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Eric Lu wins the 19th Chopin International Piano Competition
21st Oct 2025
On 20th October, Eric Lu was crowned winner of the 19th Chopin Competition, out of eighty-four performers from nineteen countries, and Deutsche Grammophon has announced a digital single for 24th October, when pre-orders for a celebratory album will also begin.
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Eric Lu on Chopin, Brahms and Schumann
19th Mar 2020
The Leeds International Piano Competition winner talks to Katherine about his first studio recording, released on Warner Classics last month.
Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineMay 2020Instrumental Choice
May 2020
Eric Lu is a young pianist blessed with what sounds like an ‘old soul’…The programme is both effective and unsettling…Lu’s playing is in a rare class – one that has a vacancy since Radu Lupu’s retirement. This type of sensitivity and emotional intuition does not grow on trees, especially no when served by such a technique, with richly singing tone and delicate fleetness of finger…Moreover, there’s high finesse in his control of nuance and ability to create subtle, intense atmospheres…Wonderful.
Jul/Aug 2020
A picture emerges from this lovely recital of a gifted musician, still studying at Curtis, who can probe the depths of the piano literature with poetic sensibilities and imagination. I look forward eagerly to whatever Lu records next. Strongly recommended.
May 2020
Lu’s first studio album opens with an account of Chopin’s Préludes that exudes this same sense of discovery. His emotional depth and dynamic range are particularly striking, bringing light and shade to everything he touches: the E minor prelude is a mini-tone poem; the F-sharp minor, Molto agitato, melts into something luminous. Brahms’ beautiful Intermezzo leads naturally to the Schumann (both in E-flat). Lu has all the Innigkeit required; it is Schumann’s unexpected harmonic twists, lit as if from within, that is the album’s summit. Truly magical.
