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This release will delight Tchaikovsky aficionados, offering a healthy, highly expressive and, above all, pleasurable approach to the piano on the most basic level. It demonstrates fresh music-making... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2024 More…

Release Date: 1st Nov 2024
Catalogue No: 4866050
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Length: 54 minutes

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8th November 2024

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Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, Op. 37

Work length47:35

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Bruce Liu (piano)
Recorded: 2024-01-23
Recording Venue: Siemensvilla, Berlin

I. January. At the Fireside

Track length6:37

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II. February. Carnival

Track length2:55

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III. March. Song of the Lark

Track length2:55

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IV. April. Snowdrop

Track length2:40

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V. May. White Nights

Track length4:39

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VI. June. Barcarolle

Track length5:29

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VII. July. The Reaper’s Song

Track length1:59

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VIII. August. The Harvest

Track length3:36

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IX: September. The Hunt

Track length2:58

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X. October. Autumn Song

Track length5:46

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XI. November. Troika

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XII. December. Christmas

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Tchaikovsky: Romance in F minor, Op. 5

Work length6:25

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Bruce Liu (piano)
Recorded: 2024-01-23
Recording Venue: Siemensvilla, Berlin

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Recording of the Week, Subtle Tchaikovsky from Bruce Liu

8th November 2024

Three years after winning the 18th Chopin International Piano Competition, Bruce Liu has made a leftfield choice for his second album on Deutsche Grammophon, bringing his precise and subtle playing to Tchaikovsky’s main work for the piano, The Seasons.

Exceptional pianist Bruce Liu, winner of the 2021 International Chopin Competition, has recorded Tchaikovsky's most famous solo piano work “The Seasons” for his second studio album.

With his unique interpretation of The Seasons, Liu brings the colors and moods of each month to life, once again showcasing his exceptional talent and profound musicality. Acclaimed by the press as a “pianist with a captivating musical personality” (Financial Times) and for his distinctive blend of “feline agility and lightness of touch” (New York Times), Liu recently won the OPUS Classical Award for his first studio album “Waves”.

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December 2024

This release will delight Tchaikovsky aficionados, offering a healthy, highly expressive and, above all, pleasurable approach to the piano on the most basic level. It demonstrates fresh music-making unadorned by superficial virtuosity or the encrustations of received wisdom.

8th November 2024

Liu is a precise player, and understatement is a central quality of his interpretation. His articulation is exacting, and his dynamic shadings are subtle, with a particularly well controlled pianissimo. The piano is close-mic’d, but the recording matches Liu’s intimate sense of scale and happily avoids the practice of artificially stretching the size of the instrument as some engineers do.

14th November 2024

His playing is exquisitely polished, but free of mannerisms; every phrase seems to have a totally natural shape and its own colour...The whole disc is a model of ego-free piano playing.

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