Jan Lisiecki, 28, is the elder statesman alongside Alexander Malofeev and Yunchan Lim in a trio of recent recital debuts at the hall.<\/p>\n
From The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n By Zachary Woolfe<\/p>\n At 28, Jan Lisiecki can certainly be called a young musician. But of the pianists making recital debuts at Carnegie Hall recently, he\u2019s something of an elder statesman.<\/p>\n Last month, Yunchan Lim, then still in his teens, confidently pressed through the challenges of Chopin\u2019s \u00e9tudes. And on Tuesday, Alexander Malofeev, 22, was an unruffled guide through the richness of Russian late Romanticism and its afterglow.<\/p>\n Both Lim and Malofeev were appearing at Carnegie for the first time, but Lisiecki has been an occasional presence with orchestras there since 2016. While the main hall\u2019s scale can be daunting for a solo recitalist, with almost 3,000 people watching, on March 13 he seemed calmly at home from the start.<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n Like Lisiecki, he offered a mix of the familiar and not. Alongside Rachmaninoff favorites in the second half of his concert, he included a work that had never been played at Carnegie: Scriabin\u2019s Two Impromptus (Op. 12).<\/p>\n The opening of a cycle called \u201cForgotten Melodies,\u201d Medtner\u2019s \u201cSonata-Reminiscenza\u201d in A minor was a treat, a fantasia on nostalgia in which a memory of childlike songfulness is passed through 14 minutes of varied colors and textures. In other hands, the piece might have expanded to more grandeur, but Malofeev kept it beautifully intimate.<\/p>\n The textures were more roiled than rich in the first piece on the program, Samuil Feinberg\u2019s transcription of Bach\u2019s Organ Concerto in A minor (BWV 593). But Malofeev\u2019s Scriabin \u2014 those impromptus, as well as the Prelude and Nocturne for the Left Hand (Op. 9) \u2014 was relaxed and suave.<\/p>\n He excels in Rachmaninoff, with considerable power yet a light, even witty touch. The Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor (in its revised, condensed version) was flexible but didn\u2019t lose a sense of structure and intention. The faintest pinprick of a high note near the end of the first movement; the subtle gracefulness of a late melody in the second; the balance of sternness and glitter in the finale \u2014 all was impressively assured.<\/p>\n He and Lisiecki both played Rachmaninoff\u2019s Op. 3, No. 2 prelude, but were intriguingly distinct in it. Lisiecki made the piece gravely granitic, while Malofeev rendered it more offhand and dreamlike.<\/p>\n In a good way, though, these two pianists are more alike than different, both with a style that\u2019s fundamentally calm and modest, never showy even at their most virtuosic.<\/p>\n Read the full review.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jan Lisiecki, 28, is the elder statesman alongside Alexander Malofeev and Yunchan Lim in a trio of recent recital debuts at the hall. From The New York Times By Zachary Woolfe At 28, Jan Lisiecki can certainly be called a young musician. But of the pianists making recital debuts at Carnegie Hall recently, he\u2019s something … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7190,6514,3670,3612],"class_list":["post-16062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alexander-malofeev","tag-pianist","tag-recital","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16064,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16062\/revisions\/16064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/16020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}