Jan Lisiecki: The Mozart Passage That Sounds 200 Years Ahead
4 min
Pianist Jan Lisiecki returns to Mozart on Deutsche Grammophon — the Piano Concertos Nos. 9 & 22, with conductor Manfred Honeck and the Bamberger Symphoniker — and explains a passage so far ahead of its time it could pass for the 20th century.Lisiecki, a Canadian pianist and Deutsche Grammophon artist since the age of fifteen, won the Gramophone Young Artist Award and the Leonard Bernstein Award as a teenager and has since played with the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, and the Berlin Philharmonic.Fourteen years after his teenage debut in Mozart's Concertos Nos. 20 & 21, he talks about what maturity took away and gave back, why Manfred Honeck was the collaborator he had been waiting for, the beauty and joy he hears in E-flat Major, the clarinets Mozart set free for the first time in a concerto, and the surviving Mozart cadenza he calls two centuries ahead of its time.Classical Post is a video podcast on how classical musicians build careers, hosted by Jonathan Eifert and based in New York. Publishing original artist interviews since 2018 and in podcast form since 2021, the archive now runs past 150 conversations — long-form, on the record, and in the artist's own words. Produced by Gold Sound Media — specialist video-first marketing for elite performing arts institutions and major-stage artists. Clients include the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and the Gilmore Piano Festival. --Gold Sound Media: https://goldsoundmedia.com/Classical Post: https://classicalpost.com/
