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The album’s title Waves alludes not only to the nature theme that runs throughout the programme, but also to the sheer spontaneity of Liu’s music-making.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deutsche Grammophon","offers":[{"title":"Black LPx2","offer_id":50393923846475,"sku":"2051764","price":44.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50393920995659,"sku":"2051763","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/WAVES_Music_by_Rameau_Ravel_Alkan_bc19bbd8_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726428993"},{"product_id":"waves-by-satie","title":"Waves: Music by Rameau, Ravel, Alkan","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis first full-length studio album from Canadian pianist Bruce Liu, winner of the 2021 International Chopin Piano Competition, offers music by three distinctive French masters. 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The release has earned rave reviews, with Gramophone calling it “one of the most distinguished Chopin recitals of recent years, full of maturity, character and purpose”, while Classics Today praised Liu’s “awesomely effortless virtuosity [which] consistently oozes charisma and insouciance”. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deutsche Grammophon","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x2","offer_id":50531117400395,"sku":"1169410","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a8e32874-de30-44db-930a-c80d788203af_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728094983"},{"product_id":"tchaikovsky-the-seasons","title":"Tchaikovsky: The Seasons","description":"\u003cp\u003eExceptional pianist Bruce Liu, winner of the 2021 International Chopin Competition, has recorded Tchaikovsky's most famous solo piano work “The Seasons” for his second studio album. 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Liu now presents a deeply personal new album: With Lunaris he invites us into a world where sound, silence and imagination converge in a luminous nocturnal landscape. Inspired by the moon’s indirect glow and the heightened sensitivity of night, the programme unfolds as a journey through shifting states of consciousness, from introspection to flashes of strangeness and dreamlike intensity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deutsche Grammophon","offers":[{"title":"2LP - Black","offer_id":57465809862987,"sku":"R7504-8675","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":57465809895755,"sku":"R7504-3198","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2000x2000bb_1953b2eb-063c-4c7b-ad98-5a2dc264399e.jpg?v=1780049546"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/bruce-liu.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}