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The title La Gazza Ladra is translated as ‘The Thieving Magpie’, which as expected is a story based around the theft of some silverwear which a magpie has absconded for its nest, a crime which a servant girl is wrongly accused of. La Gazza Ladra is an "opera semiseria", a genre from Rossini’s time which was used to define a drama with a happy ending in which the innocent victim, unjustly condemned, should be saved from the scaffold at the eleventh hour and the rascal persecutor punished.

Late works played by a young achiever: The up-and-coming American pianist Eric Lu plays major works of piano music on his first Genuin Classics CD. With this, he casts a spell on us from the distant opening bars of Mozart's A minor Rondo! Schubert's Impromptus also come from a different world and with Brahms' Piano Pieces, Op. 118 he lets the autumn of Romanticism blow over to us. Listening to these recordings, one can understand why he not only won the International German Piano Award 2017, but also the Chopin Competition and, and, and, and … Transcendent!

Warner Classics and Askonas Holt are proud to announce the signing of 20-year old American pianist, Eric Lu, winner and Dame Fanny Waterman Gold Medallist at the prestigious Leeds International Piano Competition 2018. As part of this year’s coveted prize the winner receives worldwide management with Askonas Holt – one of the world's leading arts management agencies, and an international album release on Warner Classics – one of the foremost global classical music recording companies.