Getting a head start on the impending Beethoven 2020 festivities, Canada's Jan Lisiecki has today surprised us with Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos, his fifth album for the Deutsche Grammophon label.
The three-CD set was recorded in December 2018 at Berlin's
Konzerthaus, one of the stops on Lisiecki's tour with the Academy of St.
Martin in the Fields, when he was filling in for an indisposed Murray
Perahia.
"The substitution for Murray Perahia was presented to
me as a proposal to play any two Beethoven concertos," Lisiecki
explained to CBC Music recently. "When I understood the concept of the
tour, I requested that if I am indeed to substitute, the original
structure would be upheld and I would play all five concertos on tour
and in Berlin."
The recording, produced in a matter of a few days, was quickly chosen by Lisiecki's label, Deutsche Grammophon, to launch its Beethoven 2020 rollout. "The recording is entirely live, we could only record the rehearsal and the concert; no touch-up sessions were available. The final result, I hope, is a reflection of a very successful and dynamic live cycle of these concertos."
As with his February 2019 Mendelssohn release
with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, for this set of Beethoven
concertos Lisiecki and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields performed
without a conductor.
"I love working with a conductor, and I also thoroughly enjoy
working directly with the orchestra musicians," he notes. "The vigour,
the focus, the musicianship are all heightened by the direct contact
between the musicians and the soloist, and we do everything as one. It
is often said that all orchestral performances are an enlarged form of
chamber music, but I think this holds true especially in such a
compressed setting."
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