Valour writes:

"There is a new webpage dedicated to Yundi Li, the young Chinese
pianist who won the Warsaw International Chopin Competition 2000. The
page contains links to Li's biography ,photographs, multimedia clips,
press articles and a discussion forum.

"The address is : http://lugansky.homestead.com/YL.html

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"Some additional news items relating to Nikolai Lugansky:

"From 19-22 April, 2001, Lugansky will be at the Teldec studios in
Berlin, recording the 24 Chopin Preludes, 2 Nocturnes, and 2 Ballades.

"Nikolai Lugansky's 29th birthday is coming soon. Greetings may be
left in the Guestbook. For more information, contact me by e-mail.

"I would like to take this opportunity to thank Boris Derman for
helping me to translate and edit an interesting Russian article about
Lugansky. Here is an excerpt:

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"I was fortunate enough to listen to, observe, reflect upon and even
to talk to the greatest performer of the twentienth century,
Sviatoslav Richter. And it seems to me that Lugansky is a person who
has the potential to go the way of Richter. I bear in mind his
capacity for a holistic perception of art, the attitude towards it as
the undeniable manifestation of life. I speak of "the Richterian
way" with reference to Lugansky because in him, spontaneity lives
in his phenomenal natural endowments and enormous capacity to work,
his desire to study music, to be immersed in it, to know it and to
convey it to other people not for commercial reasons but out of a
genuine wish to serve."

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"The full article may be found at :

http://lugansky.homestead.com/files/After_the_applause.htm


"Valour"