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Jan Lisiecki - Night Music is the WFMT: Featured New Release

Posted: February 22, 2022 12:00 AM | By: Admin
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Following a critically-acclaimed recording of Chopin's Complete Nocturnes, which cemented his status as one of classical music’s favourite pianists, Jan Lisiecki presents a brand new digital and visual album inspired by Night Music, released today 18 February. With this project, the Canadian-born pianist and former Gramophone Young Artist of the Year, continues to explore the universe of night music with works by Mozart, Ravel, Schumann and Paderewski.

"I love putting together programmes. I love taking the audience on that journey with me." says Lisiecki. "It’s so much more meaningful than just playing works that I love. I still love these pieces, but I love how they go together as well. And that’s how 'Night Music' was born." The album, which features a selection of tracks from Lisiecki’s Würzburg recital in 2018, is also available in the immersive sound format Dolby Atmos and complemented by a visual album.

"To me a recital programme, just as much as my recordings, has to have a concept and has to have some force that is holding it together" adds Lisiecki, who is currently touring his Poems of the night programme in Germany and continues to enjoy a busy concert diary with upcoming dates in Poland, France, Canada and the United States. "After all, how can you put together Schumann and Ravel and Mozart? It’s impossible – in aspects of trying to find a link. So you have to create a musical link. And in this case it was music of the night, and showing the multifaceted world that it exists in."

Jan Lisiecki’s double album of Frédéric Chopin's Complete Nocturnes released last summer, immediately received critical acclaim worldwide ("There’s never any doubt that it is Chopin playing of the highest class" The Guardian) as well as topping the classical charts in North America and Europe. Lisiecki’s third Chopin recording for Deutsche Grammophon, a profoundly personal interpretation of some of the most beautiful and best-loved pieces ever written for solo piano, has just been made available in double LP vinyl format.

For February 22, 2022, Jan Lisiecki: Night Music is the WFMT: Chicago 'Featured New Release.' WFMT writes….Following a critically-acclaimed recording of Chopin’s Nocturnes, Jan Lisiecki presents another new album inspired by night music. With this project, the Canadian-born pianist and former Gramophone Young Artist of the Year, continues to explore the theme with works by Mozart, Ravel, Schumann, and Paderewski. “I love putting together programs. I love taking the audience on that journey with me,” says Lisiecki. “It’s so much more meaningful than just playing works that I love. I still love these pieces, but I love how they go together as well. And that’s how Night Music was born.”