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Jan Lisiecki tames Toyota’s troublesome acoustics at the Elphi in Hamburg

By Jonathan Sutherland, 18 March 2017
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Reviewed at Elbphilharmonie: Grand Hall, Hamburg on 15 March 2017
Programme
Bernstein, On the Waterfront
Chopin, Piano Concerto no. 1 in E minor, Op.11
Rachmaninov, Symphonic Dances, Op.45
Performers
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Jan Lisiecki, Piano
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor
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Jonathan Sutherland
Jonathan Sutherland
Jonathan Sutherland is a graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the Hochschule Mozarteum in Salzburg. He is also an internationally renowned concert pianist specializing in the music of the 1930s. Jonathan’s first operatic experience was hearing Maria Callas sing Tosca in Covent Garden and he has since heard performances in all continents of the world including over 60 different productions at the Wiener Staatsoper. He has written for The Australian, Opera Today and The Opera Critic as well as Bachtrack. Jonathan speaks English, French, German and Italian fluently and is based in the south of France near Nice.