{"id":14131,"date":"2013-07-27T07:59:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T12:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=14131"},"modified":"2013-07-27T08:01:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T13:01:32","slug":"jan-lisiecki-the-portrait-of-a-young-man-as-ever-evolving-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/07\/27\/jan-lisiecki-the-portrait-of-a-young-man-as-ever-evolving-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan Lisiecki: The portrait of a young man as ever-evolving artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/jan.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14133\" alt=\"jan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/jan.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/jan.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/jan-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What makes me most uncomfortable and conflicted? Young performers. And I have to confess that Jan Lisiecki has given me more inner torment than most.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At what point does an immensely talented child go from encouragement to being ripe for comparison with established professionals?<\/p>\n<p>At what point does potential turn into a clear sense of who this person is as an artist?<\/p>\n<p>Finding that point is nearly impossible, and yet part of what I do every day is pass judgment. Drawing the line at age 21 or after a major competition win, or after graduating from music school doesn&#8217;t work, because Lisiecki hasn&#8217;t achieved any of those three milestones yet.<\/p>\n<p>Like everyone else, I&#8217;ve been impressed with Lisiecki ever since hearing him for the first time about five years ago. But I&#8217;ve also been occasionally frustrated by the subtlety of much of his interpretive work.<\/p>\n<p>Then I remind myself of the coldness of hugely respected pianists like Andras Schiff and realise that I should try to distinguish better between my personal preferences and an objective sense of the painstakingly prepared professional interpretation.<\/p>\n<p>And then I listen to a performance like the one Lisiecki gave at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland on Thursday &#8212; a solo programme of Bach and Chopin, including the full Op. 10 <em>\u00c9tudes<\/em>, all delivered with exceptional poise (as well as rivulets of sweat) &#8212; and I just want to run and hug the guy and exclaim, Yes!<\/p>\n<p>This recital&#8217;s interpretations are restrained, but they also radiate a deep, soulful, human warmth.<\/p>\n<p>Can I stop agonizing? Perhaps not yet, but I am feeling better.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out Lisiecki&#8217;s recital for free at medici.tv, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medici.tv\/#!\/jan-lisiecki-recital-verbier-festival-2013\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Then you can go search him out st Stratford Summer Music, where he is giving three concerts starting Aug. 8 &#8212; details <a href=\"https:\/\/stratfordsummermusic.ca\/artist.php?id=6\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes me most uncomfortable and conflicted? Young performers. And I have to confess that Jan Lisiecki has given me more inner torment than most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,76,19,31,36,42,47,52,59,64],"tags":[6451,748,857,1673,6468,3148,3459],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/jan.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-3FV","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14131"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14136,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14131\/revisions\/14136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14131"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}