Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

With stylish orchestral playing, these are rewarding performances that, without breaking new interpretative ground, reveal Lisiecki's astonishingly mature musicality. The contrasting characters... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 17th May 2010
Catalogue No: NIFCCD200
Label: Frederick Chopin Institute
Series: Chopin Complete Works on contemporary instruments

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Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11

Jan Lisiecki (piano)
Sinfonia Varsovia
Howard Shelley

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21

Jan Lisiecki (piano)
Sinfonia Varsovia
Howard Shelley

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The Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki was only fourteen years old when this recording was made, yet critics call him an ‘aristocrat of the piano’, ‘an extraordinary talent ‘and praise him for his mature and ‘remarkably poetic and imaginatively executed’ performances. He is already making a name for himself on the Canadian and international stage. The conductor Howard Shelley is himself an eminent pianist.

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August 2010

With stylish orchestral playing, these are rewarding performances that, without breaking new interpretative ground, reveal Lisiecki's astonishingly mature musicality. The contrasting characters of the E minor and F minor Concertos are sensitively distilled, and the pianist plays with sparkling technique as well as idiomatic pathos.

Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

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