Mendelssohn Jan Lisiecki & Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

• Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847): Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25, MWV O7:
• 1 Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25, MWV O7: 1. Molto allegro con fuoco 07:24
• 2 Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25, MWV O7: 2. Andante 06:07
• 3 Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25, MWV O7: 3. Presto. Molto allegro e vivace 06:35
• Variations sérieuses, Op. 54, MWV U156:
• 4 Variations sérieuses, Op. 54, MWV U156: Tema. Andante sostenuto 01:00
• 5 Variations sérieuses, Op. 54, MWV U156: Variation 1 00:38
• 6 Variations sérieuses, Op. 54, MWV U156: Variation 2: Un poco più animato 00:30
• 7 Variations sérieuses, Op. 54, MWV U156: Variation 3: Più animato 00:22
• 8 Variations sérieuses, Op. 54, MWV U156: Variation 4 00:23
• 9 Variations sérieuses, Op. 54, MWV U156: Variation 5: Agitato 00:27
• 10 Variations sérieuses, Op. 54, MWV U156: Variation 6: A tempo 00:24
• 11 Variations sérieuses, Op. 54, MWV U156: Variation 7 00:23
• 12 Variations sérieuses, Op. 54, MWV U156: Variation 8: Allegro vivace 00:15
• 13 Variations sérieuses, Op. 54, MWV U156: Variation 9 00:20
• 14 Variations sérieuses, Op. 54, MWV U156: Variation 10: Moderato 00:45
• 15 Variations sérieuses, Op. 54, MWV U156: Variation 11: Cantabile 00:38
• 16 Variations sérieuses, Op. 54, MWV U156: Variation 12: Tempo del tema 00:28
• 17 Variations sérieuses, Op. 54, MWV U156: Variation 13: Sempre assai leggiero 00:40
• 18 Variations sérieuses, Op. 54, MWV U156: Variation 14: Adagio 01:15
• 19 Variations sérieuses, Op. 54, MWV U156: Variation 15: Poco a poco più agitato 00:33
• 20 Variations sérieuses, Op. 54, MWV U156: Variation 16: Allegro vivace 00:17
• 21 Variations sérieuses, Op. 54, MWV U156: Variation 17 02:30
• Piano Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 40, MWV O11:
• 22 Piano Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 40, MWV O11: 1. Allegro appassionato 09:50
• 23 Piano Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 40, MWV O11: 2. Adagio. Molto sostenuto 06:14
• 24 Piano Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 40, MWV O11: 3. Finale. Presto scherzando 06:51
• Rondo capriccioso in E Major, Op. 14, MWV U67:
• 25 Rondo capriccioso in E Major, Op. 14, MWV U67: 1. Andante 02:14
• 26 Rondo capriccioso in E Major, Op. 14, MWV U67: 2. Presto leggiero 04:54
• Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 19:
• 27 Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 19: No. 6 in G Minor (Andante sostenuto) "Venetian Gondola Song", MWV U78 01:58
• Total Runtime 01:03:55

Info for Mendelssohn

Young pianist Jan Lisiecki explores a pair of early Romantic masterpieces with the acclaimed Orpheus Chamber Orchestra: Mendelssohn s Piano Concertos in G minor and D minor. Wishing to give listeners further insight into Mendelssohn s dazzling keyboard writing beyond the well-known concertos, Lisiecki also performs a selection of some of Mendelssohn s most brilliant pieces for solo piano: the VARIATIONS SERIEUSES, the Rondo capriccioso, and the Venetian Boat Song from SONGS WITHOUT WORDS.

Jan Lisiecki, piano
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Jan Lisiecki
The Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki was born in Calgary to Polish parents in 1995. After gradu-ating from high school there in January 2011, he attended the Glenn Gould School of Music in Toronto. Now recognized around the world for his poetic and mature playing, Jan has received several awards, among others as a 2010 Révélation Radio-Canada Musique and a 2011 Jeune Soliste des Radios Francophones. In 2010, the Fryderyk Chopin Institute released his live recordings of both Chopin concertos with Sinfonia Varsovia and Howard Shelley. This album was awarded the Diapason découverte. Diapason described him as “an unmannered virtuoso” and singled out for praise his “irresistibly natural playing”.

Jan has shared the stage with such renowned artists as Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma and Pinchas Zukerman and substituted for Nelson Freire in four concerts in France. He has appeared at Carnegie Hall in New York, opened the Seoul International Music Festival in Korea and performed for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and an audience of 100,000 on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Also a dedicated performer of chamber music, Jan has collaborated with the New Zealand String Quartet, Quatuor Ébène and the Penderecki String Quartet, appearing at festivals including Ravinia, Verbier, Montpellier, La Roque d’Anthéron, Warsaw (“Chopin and His Europe”), Bologna, Auvers-sur-Oise, Menton, Merano, Seoul and many others in Canada and the USA. Among the highlights of Jan Lisiecki’s 2011/12 season were the opening concert of the Orchestre de Paris under Paavo Järvi at Salle Pleyel and concerts in Montreal with the Orchestre Métropolitain under Yannick Nézet-Séguin, debuts with the MDR Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, as well as a European recital tour. On his Japan tour in the autumn, he appeared in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. Later in 2012 he made his debuts with the Accademia di Santa Cecilia Orchestra under Antonio Pappano and with the New York Philharmonic under Daniel Harding.

In March 2013, Lisiecki substituted at short notice for Martha Argerich in a Bologna concert under Claudio Abbado. Further engagements in 2013/14 include a Japan tour with the Rotterdam Philharmonic and Nézet-Séguin, Mozart concertos with Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Kimmel Center, a German tour with the Prague Philharmonia and Jakob Hrusa and concerts with Hrusa and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, concerts with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreál under Kazushi Ono and with the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra under Krysztof Urbański, a European recital tour including the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Rome’s Accademia di Santa Cecilia and the Berlin Philharmonie, as well as other European and North American recital and orchestral engagements and festival appearances including Verbier, Vail, Schleswig-Holstein and Warsaw (Chopin).

Lisiecki’s performances have been broadcast on Bavarian Radio, BBC Radio, CBC Canada, Austrian Radio, Radio France and Radio Luxembourg, as well as on television on France 3 and TV 1 and 2 in Poland. He was featured in the CBC Next! series as one of Canada’s most promising young artists and in The Reluctant Prodigy, Joe Schlesinger’s 2009 CBC National News documentary about him.

Jan Lisiecki performs frequently for various charity organizations, including the David Foster Foundation, the Polish Humanitarian Organization and the Wish Upon a Star Foundation. In June 2008 he was appointed a National Youth Representative by UNICEF Canada.

In 2011 Jan Lisiecki signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon. His first recording under this agreement, released in April 2012, features Mozart’s Piano Concertos K.466 and 467 with Christian Zacharias conducting the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. A CD containing his performances of the complete Chopin Etudes Opp. 10 and 25, will be issued in April 2013.

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