Product Description

The incredible Jan Lisiecki performs both cycles of Chopins virtuosic Etudes. This is the second Deutsche Grammophon release from the young Canadian pianist, and his first-ever studio recital album.
Chopins Etudes are among the most challenging and evocative pieces of all the works in the piano repertoire.
Jan Lisiecki has just finished recording the Etudes in the famous Koerner Hall of the Music Conservatory in Toronto. The Royal Conservatory has been involved in the training of many notable artists such as the pianists Glenn Gould and Oscar Peterson.

Review

. . . An artist of astonishing maturity and depth . . . the Chopin Études were positively hair-raising . . . it all seemed so easy; the pianist hardly looked at his hands or the keyboard, all the while negotiating this difficult program with an accuracy that nudged up against the impossible . . . --The Seattle Times