Chinese Pianist Lang Lang Performs Beethoven's Concerto #4 with NY Philharmonic

Lang Lang (b. China '82) is a world renown pianist.  He's performed before int'l Presidents including 4 US Presidents, 2 Chinese Presidents and Queen Elizabeth II to name but a few.  To be in the audience while Lang Lang is playing makes one feel like royalty.  His playing is transcendent and hearing his interpretation of Beethoven's Concert #4 is bliss.  To contemplate the miraculousness of Beethoven's  compositions fills one with complete wonderment.  He wrote this piece in 1806, several years after becoming completely deaf.  The great composer's genius defies conceivability.  Hearing Lang Lang play Beethoven's opening piano solo, a revolutionary contrivance at the time, gives one a visceral feeling sets one spirit soaring.  The familiar movements to the orchestration are majestic.  Conductor Gilbert led orchestra with grandeur.  Watching Lang Lang from the 1st tier box I was also privy to watching his "free" left hand rise above the keyboard as if to give count.  Seeing Lang's own rapturous expressions was stirring. (And, he did crack his knuckles before beginning.)  The mutual respect & admiration between Maestro Gilbert & the brilliant pianist was joyous to see during their 3 curtain calls to a standing ovation.  How incredibly sad to consider Beethoven's 4th Concerto premier would be the last concert he ever gave.  Beethoven became enraged by the audience's guffaws at an incident involving 1 of the boys on stage providing candlelight who was inadvertently struck by him.  Regardless, the heavenliness of the piano & orchestra was uplifting for my soul.