EMI CLASSICS SIGNS CHINESE PIANIST YUNDI
13 Jan 2010
Yundi Li, the brilliant young Chinese pianist … has proved a technically astounding pianist who is by turns elegant and rambunctious, coolly expressive and white hot." (The New York Times)
EMI Classics has signed the "superlative young Chinese pianist” Yundi, formerly known as Yundi Li, winner of the 14th International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. Appropriately, Yundi's first EMI release will be the complete Chopin Nocturnes, released to commemorate the composer's 200th birthday in 2010.
Yundi and EMI Classics together plan to record the complete works for solo piano by Chopin.
