Lesson with Lang Lang and Anna Larsen (Part 1)

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Last fall, Anna was a scholarship winner from the Lang Lang Foundation (http://www.thelanglangfoundation.org/). This week, Anna Larsen and Derek Wang, another winner, had a lesson with Lang Lang at M. Steinert & Sons in Boston the day after his amazing concert at Symphony Hall. Anna worked on the third movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto 23 in A major. Anna was a little nervous at first, and you can see her absolute focus at the end of this clip when he wanted her to stop! Lang Lang was able to help her relax, and helped her make the piano sing in a way I have never heard from her before. He was extremely helpful, insightful, and very good talking and relating to kids. His teaching style was very friendly and very intense, and his advice was very frank in a good constructive way. The lesson was about 30 minutes long, I'll post the remaining clips (once I've made them) if people seem interested. Many thanks to Lang Lang!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Piano Lesson
• Mozart Piano Concerto 23
• A major
• Lang Lang
• Anna Larsen
• Master Class

[concerto35]

Lang Lang is indeed a showman and so was Liszt. Lang Lang has great interpretive ability musically and so had Liszt. There is nothing wrong with being very demonstrative. If you listen to him play Schubert's Wanderer Fantasie; his impeccable Mozart and the Chopin concerti, you will see that uses great subtlety as well as awsome bravura in strategic places. Lang Lang feels the music very acutely: you can see and hear it.

[LarsenPiano]

@concerto35 I completely agree with you. We think that Lang Lang is great and has the right combination of bravura and subtlety.

[myceliumful]

ermm do anna take up hanon? and does she practice both hands simultaneously when learning new pieces?

[LarsenPiano]

@myceliumful

She has not had the discipline to do any Hanon, Schmitt, Czerny exercises with any focussed depth of concentration. She did Hanon for a few months, some Cznery for a few months, but the Chopin etudes are musically more interesting than 5 finger exercises. Yes, she mainly does both hands together when learning new piece, but for tricky passages, she does hands alone.

[Xujie83]

Langlang is too young to be a teacher for you~ because you are also genius~~ so you need a teacher for genius. Does classical music needs to be populized?? i don't think so. Why do we need to populize Bach, mozart, etc...?

[LarsenPiano]

I think it needs to be popularized more for the simple reason that most concerts and recitals are poorly attended by younger generations. I've been to so many concerts and recitals where it is over half empty. There needs to be more music education and music awareness for younger generations.

[labcdaire]

I still wonder why she never ever looks genuinely happy while playing.

The more I watch her video recordings, the more I feel like she is being pushed by her parents, unlike Aimi Kobayashi at her young age for instance.

[grangran1234]

Does any body know where i can find the sheet music for this piece ?

[trapp119]

u rock anna u r the best

[wildstyled]

It made me laugh when he tried to stop her. It was so cute lol. I can imagine her thinking "whaat??? You interrupted me!!!!"

[N33rDow3ll1998]

@nirmz94 Thanks, you cocky prick ;) Just kidding, that actually made me wanna go practice and strive for the best. Hope youre doing well in music:)

[nirmz94]

@N33rDow3ll1998 Lol, sorry, I don't know how to reply to this in a way that doesn't make me sound like a cocky prick! I started at 8 and at 13 I'd done my grade 8. But at the start I practised loaaaaads, every morning and every evening. I'm now 17 and I haven't kept up that level so I plateaued off a bit, but you will be fine. The fact you're still playing shows you have musical talent, so you're good. Have confidence in your skillz, I'm sure they're pretty awesome :D

[N33rDow3ll1998]

This makes me really wish my dad had opened me to piano lessons at a early age instead of 9 years old. Now 13, I'm still not that great and can barely play Rondo Alla Turca. Is this okay, or am I slacking? ): and that kids amazing!!

[Remy16121993]

@EmilyBearfan you play a instrument in a music school ? Dude its normal ;)

[EmilyBearfan]

It would be so frustrating to have that guy stop you every ten seconds...I can see why Anna didn't look like she was having much fun!

[OhFookinELL]

Man, I'd give away my left testicle to have lessons with Lang Lang......

then again maybe not!

[KickCola]

how is this a lesson???????????????????????