Distinct Insights Dejan Lazic plays Beethoven - heard by HOWARD SMITH '... a crisp, vernal, excellently deliniated performance ...'

I can't say Dejan Lazic is a name I'm familiar with. But that's increasingly the way it's been these last two or three decades. Ready or not, gifted young artists are streaming out of learning institutes in Europe, the UK, North America, China, the CIS, Australasia and Korea/Japan as never before. Some are equipped to face the cut-throat 'rough-and-tumble' of a career on the international circuit, others less so.

Since the death of Soviet Communism, advent of the European Union, and opening up of the People's Republic of China, the character of advanced musical studies has changed beyond recognition...

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

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