Label news: Chopin winner gets golden handshake
NewsDeutsche Grammophon, the yellow label, has signed the Canadian pianist Bruce Liu to an exclusive recording deal.
Liu, 24, won the 18th International Chopin Piano Competition last October.
DG has already released all of his performance rounds from the competition.
It will follow up with Chopin’s Nocturne in C sharp minor, the first of a string of e-singles.
His first full album will be a French-themed Chopin and Rameau compilation. The second will include Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No.2, with which he made his UK debut this month.
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Do you know what “golden handshake” actually means?
How about “diversity”? ;))))
Why do you say the “yellow label”? I think that could be interpreted by some people as a racial slur. Why don’t you just write DG. All the musicians who read this news know it’s yellow since they were kids.
The slings and arrows of outrageous wokeness.
Indeed, I have been hearing references to DG’s color for decades, both in English and in German. It is a perfectly legitimate alternative to writing Deutsche Grammophon.
Ummm… their…label…is yellow? Like color “yellow” yellow? How do you want them to call their yellow label? It is just a color for god’s sake! have you heard something called “context”? People are really and not that slowly, losing their minds…
“French-themed Chopin and Rameau compilation”.
I thought Chopin was Polish?
French father, Polish mother. Lived most of his adult life in France.
A “golden handshake” is a bonus or other reward bestowed upon one’s retirement.
You’re welcome.
He cuts such a handsome, stylish figure. I just wish the moniker “Bruce” would go in favour of something that fits his surname.
I’m pretty sure that Bruce isn’t an inappropriate name for a Canadian. He may have an Asian family name, but there’s no reason to restrict his given name to something that’s also traditionally Asian. I don’t know how long his family has been in Canada. Do you? Should every Irish immigrant descendent to another country be restricted to being named Patrick?
I have interpreted your comment as highly offensive; why won’t you just stop commenting?- some people will find your comments as offensive.
Dear Jane Parsons
There‘s a coomon sende that DG is the yellow label. If I vote ‚red‘ in USA, I don’t vote for people with red colored skin though maybe some of the politicians of the red party may have red colored skin. If I vote ‚black‘ in Germany, I don’t vote people with dark skin though I would be happy if there would be more people with dark sin in the so-called ‚black‘ party. And wow, the ‚ Black Print‘ is such a delicious red vine. Do you call it racism giving a wonderful vine the name ‚Black Print‘? Does it have to be called ‚Dark Red Print‘? Or just ‚Colored Print‘? We need to stop that kind of Cancel Culture!
Very unfortunate publicity shot. That smug cynical look isn’t going to do him any favours.