Jan Lisiecki is a welcome guest everywhere he goes, and above all, a welcome listener. This time, he focuses his cleverly chosen and highly interesting programme on dances from all over Europe and Argentina. In the first half of the concert, he presents six composers – Martinů, de Falla, Szymanowski, Schubert, Bartók and Ginastera – who all focus on dance, before the dance form concentrates entirely on the waltz after the interval with Brahms and Chopin, whom Lisiecki always interprets so enchantingly. Entirely on the waltz? No! Because in addition to waltzes by Brahms and Chopin, Piazzolla, Albéniz and once again de Falla take us back to the lively Hispanic-American realm before Chopin’s lively A flat major polonaise concludes the evening.
PERFORMERS
Jan Lisiecki piano
PROGRAM
Franz Schubert
16 Deutsche Tänze und zwei Ecossaises D 783
Béla Bartók
Romanian Folk Dances, Sz 56
Frédéric Chopin
Grande valse brillante Es-Dur op. 18
Johannes Brahms
Walzer As-Dur op. 39/15
as well as other works by Johannes Brahms, Frédéric Chopin, Alberto Ginastera, Astor Piazzolla and others
