Work: 12 Études, Op.25

The 19-year old Van Cliburn winner delivers an assured and poetic account of all 27 of Chopin’s ferociously difficult études. 

In a concert of music by Mozart, Liszt, Mendelssohn and Chopin, pianist Jan Lisiecki demonstrated sparkling technique but with little sense of musicality or insight.

If you know what people have been saying about Jan Lisiecki, you might enter the recital hall echoing some extremely high praise for this 17-year-old pianist. Of course, in Toronto, where Lisiecki has been studying at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory, CBC Magazine is asking: “Is he the next Glenn Gould?” But after hearing his recital today of Chopin’s Études Opp.