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Exploring Mozart's Musical Mysteries with Superstar Pianist Jan Lisiecki

WRTI Your Classical and Jazz Source | By Susan Lewis
Published January 27, 2021 at 6:20 AM EST
Polish/Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki was Gramophone Magazine's 2013 Young Artist of the Year.

Among Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s hundreds of compositions are 27 piano concertos.  In 2014, WRTI’s Susan Lewis talked with the young pianist Jan Lisiecki about why he is so drawn to their musical purity, emotional complexity, and sense of fun.

http://youtu.be/5uD83Y42e-Y

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Listen to more of WRTI's Susan Lewis' 2014 interview with pianist Jan Lisiecki.
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Susan Lewis
Susan writes and produces stories about music and the arts. She’s host and producer of WRTI’s TIME IN online interview series, and contributes weekly intermission interviews for The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series. She’s also been a regular host of WRTI’s Live from the Performance Studio sessions.
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