Lang Lang's world first recording of Chopin's previously unreleased song "Waltz in A minor "Found in New York" will be available on November 8th (Friday)!

Universal Music LLC (Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Takashi Fujikura / hereinafter referred to as Universal Music) is pleased to announce that Lang Lang has released Chopin’s previously unreleased piece “Waltz in A Minor (Found in)”. New York” will be distributed from November 8th (Friday).

Frédéric Chopin was a composer who created many masterpieces for piano, such as “Puppy Waltz” and “Eroic Polonaise.” The unreleased work “Waltz in A minor “Found in New York”, which was released last month, has been released as a performance by internationally active pianist Lang Lang.

“Waltz in A minor, Found in New York” was discovered at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York and was reported by the New York Times last month. After examining the handwriting and musical style of the score, it was announced that it was most likely a work by the piano poet Chopin, written between 1830 and 1835. Chopin was a composer who created many masterpieces for the piano, such as “Puppy Waltz” and “Eroic Polonaise,” and this work is thought to have been written when he was in his early 20s.

Chopin’s piano works are known for their contrasting styles, ranging from vibrant to melancholy. This unreleased work is a short waltz of 48 bars (approximately 80 seconds), but it begins darkly and dramatically, with soft dissonance developing into stormy chords.

Last month, an unreleased work believed to have been composed by Mozart when he was a teenager was announced, and its world premiere recording was also released by Deutsche Grammophon, performed by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Herbert Blomstedt. Masu.

Chopin: Waltz in A Minor “Found in New York” (2024 World Premiere Recording)