Late works played by a young achiever: The up-and-coming American pianist Eric Lu plays major works of music on his first Genuin album. With this,...

Late works played by a young achiever: The up-and-coming American pianist Eric Lu plays major works of music on his first Genuin album. With this, he casts a spell on us from the distant opening bars of Mozart's A minor Rondo. Schubert's Impromptus also come from a different world and with Brahms piano pieces op. 118 he let's the autumn of Romanticism blow over to us. Listening to these recordings, one can understand why he not only won the International German Piano Award 2017, but also the Chopin Competition and several others. Transcendent! Nineteen years old at the time of this recording, Eric Lu first gained international acclaim by becoming one of the youngest competitors to win the Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung praised the "phenomenal technical mastery" of his playing, emphasizing that though "he may seem shy, he is able to captivate his audience." The Verlagsgruppe Rhein-Main commended his performance as "sensitive, alternating between melancholy and rebellion, he brings out the expressive threads of the work and sculpts melodic lines from the virtuoso and richly textured piano part with fascinating lucidity."