Nichts blieb Nebensache: Julia Fischer und Jan Lisiecki in Berlin

By Sebastian Urmoneit, 11 November 2024

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Reviewed at Philharmonie: Kammermusiksaal, Berlin on 6 November 2024

Mozart, Violin Sonata in B flat major, K378 (K317d)

Beethoven, Violin Sonata no. 3 in E flat major, Op.12 no.3

Schumann, Violin Sonata no. 2 in D minor, Op.121

Julia Fischer, Violin

Jan Lisiecki, Piano

Wiener Symphoniker parties in style at the Concertgebouw

Clare Varney, 3rd November

Jan Lisiecki joins Petr Popelka and the touring Wiener Symphoniker at the Concertgebouw for Grieg's Piano Concerto.

****1

Seoul Arts Center: Renes and Lisiecki play Beethoven and Mahler

SangKwon Lee, 10th August

After Jan Lisiecki clarifies the architecture of Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto, Renes' Mahler felt like a letter written in the dark.

***11

An awesome Rite of Spring from Aziz Shokhakimov in Strasbourg

David Karlin, 25th April

The Uzbek conductor shows that he's a force to be reckoned with, revealing unimaginable amounts of detail in Stravinsky's score. Jan Lisiecki gives a carefully weighted account of Mozart.

****1

Peter Oundjian bridges the centuries in Seattle

Erica Miner, 15th March

The Seattle Symphony co-commissions a new work, Jan Lisiecki plays Mozart with religious fervor, and Stravinsky's Sacre still creates an uproar.

***11

Elim Chan commands powerful Prokofiev with Pittsburgh Symphony

Sam Jacobson, 7th March

The debutante conductor made her mark in Prokofiev, with Jan Lisiecki joining in for Mozart.

****1

Season opener places the Toronto Symphony Orchestra centre-stage

Michelle Assay, 25th September

Gustavo Gimeno kicks off the TSO’s new season with new perspectives on the familiar and not-so-familiar

***11

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Sebastian Urmoneit

Sebastian Urmoneit sudierte Musikwissenschaft und Philosophie in Berlin (u. a. bei Carl Dahlhaus). Ergänzendes Studium an der HdK Berlin (UdK)(u. a. bei Heinrich Poos und Hartmut Fladt), Dissertation zu Wagners „Tristan und Isolde“; Aufsätze über Schubert, Wagner, Wolf, Strauss und Brahms; Herausgabe: Joseph Haydn, Memoria, Band 11 mit Hartmut Fladt. Werkeinführungen für das Berliner Konzerthaus, das Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, die Bamberger Symphoniker, die Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, die Südwestdeutsche Konzertdirektion Erwin Russ GmbH, die Dachauer Schlosskonzerte, die Albert Konzerte GmbH in Freiburg u. a.