Schumann: Works for piano and orchestra
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Works for piano and orchestra
Jan Lisiecki (piano) / Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
[ Deutsche Grammophon / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 1 April 2016
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Jan Lisiecki's new album is a dream come true for the 20-year old pianist: He recorded with Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia Schumann's works for piano and orchestra.
The recording follows his very successful Proms Debut on 19 July 2013 with Schumann's Piano Concerto.
Now it is coming: Jan's carefully prepared and long awaited third album for DG.
The Schumann Piano Concerto is a work that leaves a lot of room for the individual approach. It's not at all about virtuosity and technical brilliance but calls instead for a detailed and intimate dialogue between pianist and orchestra: chamber music on a grand scale.
Jan offers a fresh, thoughtful and emotional interpretation. He says: It is almost as if Schumann left to the musician something to say. So I hope that the audience simply hears my version of this concerto and I hope they enjoy it.
"This Polish-Canadian pianist may be just 20, but his account of the concerto's opening movement is judicious, suggesting a coiled energy beneath the surface tenderness, and taking advantage of the music's intermittent licence to dream; his touch has a chaste beauty, with no hint of histrionics…a gentle reminder of the artistry which first put Lisiecki in the limelight three years ago." (BBC Music)
"There's a tremendous maturity in terms of the sweep of the concerto's opening movement, albeit coupled with an infectious glee…a sense of exploration permeates all the performances here, too; the first-movement cadenza is particularly imaginative in that regard" (Gramophone)
Tracks:
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
Introduction & Allegro appassionato in G major, Op. 92
Introduction and Allegro Op. 134
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Traümerei
