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Van Oost Naar West (2008)

by Lang Lang(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Forum Amsterdam

review 1: I found out about this book through my piano teacher. She recommend to me. It's so powerful book and can influence the readers greatly. Every word in the book strikes my heart. Reading his autobiography motivates me of how I should be working harder and practicing more. The amount of time he practices everyday makes me feel like I'm just a trash laying on the streets compare to him. He played those sonatinas and sonatas when he was only 3 or 5, while I'm still learning sonatas myself at the age of 14. I started crying when the part he got fired by his teacher and his father was so out of mind that he want Lang Lang to die. The way they delineated the story was so vivid that I feel like I can see the whole thing happening in front of my. It's an amazing ... morebook.
review 2: Lang Lang is a young Chinese concert pianist, who was something of a child prodigy. This short biography chronicles his childhood and education up through the establishment of his international performance career. He is very honest about both the joy and pain of being a child prodigy, and often shows a surprising amount of insight into his life and the forces that shaped it. I was particularly fascinated by the way in which Lang's father gave his son unconditional and tireless support while at the same time subjecting him to pressure so intense and relentless that is often crossed the line into cruelty. I only wish that the book had been written less for a casual general audience and more for a musically informed audience. While this book does touch on how Lang feels about various pieces and composers, all such discussion stays at the surface level. less

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