James Lisney plays Chopin and Beethoven

Photo © Suzie Maeder

James Lisney piano

Chopin
Fantaisie, Op.49
Impromptu, Op.51
Sonate, Op.35 (marche funèbre)
Beethoven
33 Verändungen uber einen Walzer von Anton Diabelli, Op.120 (1823)

James Lisney enjoys a rich musical life, moving seamlessly from concerto and recital soloist to chamber musician, song accompanist and pianist director. Initiatives, such as his extensive Beethoven Project or the recording company Woodhouse Editions, provide a platform for his wide-ranging musical sympathies. He has held residencies at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, London’s South Bank Centre and Carnegie Hall in New York and this season will be marking his sixtieth birthday with concerts throughout the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.

"I have nothing but praise for James Lisney’s piano playing; he combines velvet touch and wide range of colour with complete understanding of phrasing and dynamic shading. This is someone who can really give the mechanical box of wires and wood a singing soul."  – The Telegraph

"Lisney, likewise, made of these sonatas a phoenix, boundlessly expressing a glorious rebirth of Beethoven’s creativity, re-animating the very phrases of his musical processes in all their enchanting, mercurial, forceful, kaleidoscopic variety – brusque and blunt, longing and tender, ineffable and sublime. One felt that all emotions human-beings had ever felt were incomparably here – and, further, some that had been felt only by this extraordinary man and, maybe, just a few others.
Lisney gave us a journey of the soul". - The Classical Source

You can listen to an interview with James Lisney on the Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast via the Spotify app.

You can also read and interview with James on The Cross-eyed Pianist blog.