“Chopin, Scriabin: Études and Other Piano Works”, the new album by pianist Jun Lin Wu released by Da Vinci Classics, is out now — a project made possible by the support of the Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli International Piano Competition in Brescia.
Chopin, Scriabin: Études and Other Piano Works, the new album by pianist Jun Lin Wu, is out now on Da Vinci Classics. The project came about thanks to the support of the Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli International Piano Competition in Brescia, which Wu won in 2023.
The programme sets Chopin against Scriabin, two composers bound by a pianistic lineage that shifts as it passes on. From Chopin’s singing line — a matter of breath, touch and shading — it moves to the more feverish, visionary harmonic colours of Scriabin. The album brings together Chopin’s Variations brillantes op. 12, the posthumous Trois nouvelles études, the Berceuse op. 57 and the Polonaise op. 44; from Scriabin come the complete 12 Études op. 8 and the Fantaisie in B minor op. 28.
The repertoire reflects a career widely recognised and admired, not least in major competitions: at the Michelangeli, Jun Lin Wu was awarded the special prize for the best performance of a mazurka by Fryderyk Chopin, and at the Paderewski Competition in Bydgoszcz the special prize for the best performance of a work by Chopin. In 2022 he won the special Scriabin prize at both the “Scriabin” International Piano Competition in Grosseto and the one in Lyon.
Listen to the album
The album is available on disc, from the Da Vinci Classics website, and digitally on all the main streaming platforms.
🎧 Listen on Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Apple Music and all the main digital platforms.
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Our thanks go to the Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli International Piano Competition, to the Associazione GIA – Giovani Interpreti Associati APS and to Da Vinci Classics for making this project possible.
The artist
A Chinese pianist born in 1997, Jun Lin Wu studied in London at the Royal College of Music, in the class of Dmitri Alexeev. After first prize at the “Jaques Samuel” Competition in London, he made his recital debut at Wigmore Hall in 2019. He performs regularly in recital, with orchestra and in chamber ensembles across Asia and Europe, and teaches piano at the Zhejiang Conservatory of Music in China, where he is also the institution’s Representative Artist.
