nytimes.com/2005/09/24/arts/ … 4phil.html
“At his audience-wowing best in Chopin’s Piano Concerto in E minor last night, he flamed and bounced for all his 23 years were worth; the cultural equivalent of sunglasses was needed to make one’s way through all the glitz. Yet there were other things: an unusually and precisely ringing sound and the technique to parse the teenage Chopin’s virtuoso passages with absolute clarity. And when he chooses, Lang Lang can build phrases simply and elegantly.”
