Would it be accurate to apply the label 'wunderkind' to Jan Lisiecki? He's only 21 years old, and at the age of 16 signed a recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon!
Brahms and Schumann had a special relationship, hence the programming of their works on the same concert....two classics of their time.
Music of Griffes, Brahms and Bartok....Jeremy Denk is the soloist
The 2nd Piano Concerto came 22 years after the "1st Piano Concerto". Brahms was the soloist at the premiere in November of 1881.
Mozart's 20th Piano Concerto was the first Mozart concerto that Leif Ove Andsnes played with an orchestra, when he was 14 years old! He revisits "an old favorite" with the CSO tonight on the "Evening Concert".
