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Chopin: Études

Jan Lisiecki (piano)

Chopin: Études

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When, if ever, have you heard the Chopin Etudes played as pure music, given as naturally as breathing yet recreated from an entirely novel perspective? From Jan Lisiecki, Chopin's poetic essence,...

Chopin: Études

Jan Lisiecki (piano)

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When, if ever, have you heard the Chopin Etudes played as pure music, given as naturally as breathing yet recreated from an entirely novel perspective? From Jan Lisiecki, Chopin's poetic essence,...

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The incredible Jan Lisiecki performs both cycles of Chopin’s virtuosic Études. This is the second Deutsche Grammophon release from the young Canadian pianist, and his first-ever studio recital album

Chopin’s Études are among the most challenging and evocative pieces of all the works in the piano repertoire. Jan Lisiecki has just finished recording the Études in the famous Koerner Hall of the Music Conservatory in Toronto. The Royal Conservatory has been involved in the training of many notable artists such as the pianists Glenn Gould and Oscar Peterson

Contents and tracklist

No. 1 in C Major "Waterfall"
Track length2:04
No. 2 in A Minor
Track length1:30
No. 3 in E Major
Track length3:54
No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor
Track length2:11
No. 5 in G-Flat Major
Track length1:41
No. 6 in E-Flat Minor
Track length3:16
No. 7 in C Major "Toccata"
Track length1:37
No. 8 in F Major "Sunshine"
Track length2:33
No. 9 in F Minor
Track length2:04
No. 10 in A-Flat Major
Track length2:17
No. 11 in E-Flat Major "Arpeggio"
Track length2:37
No. 12 in C Minor
Track length2:46
No. 1 in A-Flat Major
Track length2:25
No. 2 in F Minor "The Bees"
Track length1:27
No. 3 in F Major "The Horseman"
Track length1:58
No. 4 in A Minor "Paganini"
Track length1:52
No. 5 in E Minor
Track length3:25
No. 6 in G-Sharp Minor
Track length2:07
No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor
Track length5:57
No. 8 in D-Flat Major "Sixths"
Track length1:07
No. 9 in G-Flat Major
Track length0:56
No. 10 in B Minor "Octave"
Track length3:51
No. 11 in A Minor
Track length3:38
No. 12 in C Minor "Ocean"
Track length2:51

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Awards and reviews

  • Gramophone Magazine
    October 2013
    Editor's Choice

October 2013

When, if ever, have you heard the Chopin Etudes played as pure music, given as naturally as breathing yet recreated from an entirely novel perspective? From Jan Lisiecki, Chopin's poetic essence, hidden beneath every thorny, relentlessly focused problem, emerges with an inimitable subtlety and elegance.
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