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Louis Lortie: Chopin Études

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Louis Lortie

Across a single evening the Chopin pianist par excellence revisits the complete Chopin Études – a set of ground-breaking, multi-faceted works.

There’s nothing ‘academic’ about the 27 studies Chopin published almost 200 hundred years ago. Redefining what the piano might be, each inhabits a self-contained world, sometimes soul-searchingly anguished, sometimes bristling with dazzlingly virtuosic shock and awe. Ops 10 and 25 set a benchmark that remains one of the ultimate challenges for any pianist.

Some four decades in the making, the award-winning Canadian pianist’s multi-disc Chopin survey has attracted enthusiastic praise. ‘Playing of the most patrician poise, fluidity, and tonal finesse’ says Gramophone; while for BBC Music Magazine Lortie is simply the ‘model Chopinist: eloquent but never sentimental, elegant without sounding effete, dramatic but never exaggerated, harmonically luminous, structurally immaculate – surprising’.

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This performance will end at approximately 9.15pm with a 20 minute interval.

Produced by the Barbican

Programme

  • Frédéric Chopin   Études, Op 10
  •   Trois Nouvelles Études, B130
  •   Études, Op 25

Performers

  • Louis Lortie   piano

Digital programme

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