{"id":4611,"date":"2025-03-18T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/?post_type=event&p=4611"},"modified":"2025-03-17T16:14:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T15:14:56","slug":"jan-lisiecki-08-11-2025","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/programme\/jan-lisiecki-08-11-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan Lisiecki"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki turns thirty in 2025 yet, at this young age, he has a remarkable and highly successful career behind him already. He has worked with some of the world\u2019s most illustrious conductors, among them Claudio Abbado, Antonio Pappano and Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin, and he has performed alongside the finest world orchestras, such as the New York Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris and the London Symphony Orchestra. When the British magazine <\/span>Gramophone<\/span><\/i> included Lisiecki\u2019s recording of Fryderyk Chopin\u2019s <\/span>\u00c9<\/span><\/i>tudes<\/span><\/i> among the fift<\/span>y greatest Chopin albums ever made, the young pianist found himself alongside such luminaries as <\/span>Arthur Rubinstein, Martha Argerich and Murray Perahia. \u201cLisiecki gives us tone poems first and studies second, his technique as unobtrusive as it is effortlessly fluent, lissom and precise,\u201d wrote the prestigious British magazine, while <\/span>The New York Times <\/span><\/i>described his performance as \u201cpristine, lyrical and intelligent\u201d.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lisiecki will appear at the Rudolf Firku\u0161n<\/span>\u00fd<\/span> Piano Festival<\/span> with a cleverly conceived programme constructed exclusively upon the prelude form \u2013 a short composition which originally served merely as an introduction to other, more complex works. \u201cA master of the short form, Chopin brought the prelude out from the shadows and into the spotlight\u201d, Lisiecki states, explaining why the major cycle <\/span>24 Preludes Op. 28 <\/span><\/i>by his favourite composer represents the culmination of the concert. He will also be performing the most celebrated preludes in the piano repertoire \u2013 Bach\u2019s <\/span>Prelude in C major <\/span><\/i>from <\/span>Book 1 of The Well-Tempered Clavier <\/span><\/i>and <\/span>Prelude in C sharp minor <\/span><\/i>by Sergei Rachmaninov, early preludes by Olivier Messiaen, which the young French composer wrote under the influence of Claude Debussy, and preludes by Polish composers Karol Szymanowski and Henryk Miko\u0142aj G\u00f3recki.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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