Jan Lisiecki © Mathias Bothor (Ausschnitt)
London Philharmonic Orchestra / Lisiecki / Jurowski
Monday
19
December
2016
19:30 – ca. 21:40
Großer Saal
Performers
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Jan Lisiecki, Klavier
Vladimir Jurowski, Dirigent
Programme
Mikhail Glinka
Valse-Fantaisie h-moll (1839/1845/1856)
Frédéric Chopin
Konzert für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 1 e-moll op. 11 (1830)
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Sergej Rachmaninoff
Prélude cis-moll op. 3/2 (Morceaux de fantaisie) (1892)
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Symphonie Nr. 1 d-moll op. 13 (1895)
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Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky
Tanz der Gaukler (Snegurochka »Schneeflöckchen« op. 12) (1873)
Subscription series
Orchester international
Links
https://www.lpo.org.uk
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
Youthful panache
When it comes to music, Jan Lisiecki is always highly concentrated and serious — so much so that Pinchas Zuckerman, one of his many famous musical partners, says he has an »old soul«. »Entering a concert hall should be like entering a holy place,« insists Lisiecki. »You’re there to experience a moment of self-reflection. And hopefully you come out of it altered, refreshed and exalted.« The highly gifted pianist, who first performed with an orchestra at the age of 10, rejects the label »Wunderkind«. Instead, he points to his beloved Chopin: it is much more remarkable that he composed his E-Minor piano concerto at the age of just 20.
In that work, the piano repeatedly takes on the role of a singer of intimate and virtuoso arias. And that coincides with Lisiecki’s credo: »I always try to make the piano sound like a human voice.« Lisiecki’s partner in the forthcoming concerts is the 44-year-old Vladimir Jurowski, a still young but internationally acclaimed conductor who returns to the Wiener Konzerthaus shortly after a guest residency there with »his« Russian National Orchestra. Equally as eminent an ensemble as the Russian orchestra is the London Philharmonic Orchestra, whose chief conductor and artistic director Jurowski — the son of a Russian family of musicians — has been since 2007.
Publications
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