The single, featuring Chopin’s Waltz in C-sharp minor, Op. 64, No. 2, will be available for streaming and download on Friday.
The full album, containing live recordings of Lu’s performances during the competition, is set for release on November 21.
Lu said his victory in Warsaw earlier this week was "a dream come true.”
“I’m so grateful for this honour—to all the Chopin lovers around the world who watched online, to the audience here in Warsaw, and to the jury for bestowing this award on me,” he said in a statement released by the label.
Deutsche Grammophon CEO Clemens Trautmann said Lu’s performances during the competition won him millions of new fans around the world.
"We look forward to sharing these insightful and powerful readings of Chopin with an even wider global audience, thus transforming the spontaneous excitement of the competition into a lasting pianistic legacy, as we did with previous first-prize winners, ranging from Maurizio Pollini in the 1960s to Bruce Liu in 2021," Trautmann said.
He added: “We’re equally delighted to have renewed our longstanding relationship with the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, whose artistic ideals are so closely aligned with those of DG.”
Stanisław Leszczyński, artistic director of the Warsaw-based Chopin Institute, told DG: “It is hard to overestimate the importance of our longstanding cooperation, which, against the backdrop of such an extraordinary event as the Chopin Competition, helps spread the phenomenon of the Polish composer around the world.”
Lu, 27, is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He participated in the Warsaw competition for the second time, having won fourth prize in 2015.
In 2018, he took the top prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition and has since performed at major venues including London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Seoul Arts Center and Brussels’ Bozar.
He has previously recorded two albums for Warner Classics featuring works by Chopin, Schubert, Schumann and Brahms.
The Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw plans to release a full set of albums documenting the competition and all its prizewinners in the coming months.
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Source: Deutsche Grammophon