钢琴家：康斯坦丁·列夫席兹 

Pianist：Konstantin Lifschitz

 

“其实康斯坦丁把弹钢琴变得如此简单轻松并不是那么贴切的，因为他在演奏时是那么地诗情画意，以至于让我们难以用难易来描述他的演奏。”

——纽约时报

 

“康斯坦丁可以最大限度地发挥钢琴的音乐色彩，把旋律的潜力完全激发出来。他的舞台风格绅士，无懈可击的权威确不张扬，他最有说服力，强调了作品中的生活，而不是音乐历史纪念碑。”

——卫报

 

“可能是因为康斯坦丁高超的演奏技术，他不仅对触感，音调和踏板等细节的变化非常敏感，正如那钟型曲线般上扬的美丽的强音，而且对乐曲结构的变化总是牢牢把握。这真是一个最深刻、最令人满意的神奇的夜晚！”

——独立日报

 

自从康斯坦丁·列夫席兹13岁时在莫斯科联盟议院大厅完成了令人震撼的钢琴首演后，他的演出遍布世界各音乐厅，世界上最重要的音乐节中也频繁出现他的身影。他与交响乐团一起同台演出，包括纽约爱乐、维也纳广播交响乐团、柏林广播交响乐团、伦敦交响乐团、旧金山交响乐团、圣彼得堡爱乐、莫斯科爱乐、法兰克福广播交响乐团，斯图加特爱乐乐团等。

 

列夫席兹五岁时就开始学琴，他曾经向布伦德尔（Alfred Brendel）、傅聪（Fou T 'song）、顾德曼（Theodor Gutmann）、特洛普（Vladimir Tropp）、富莱雪（Leon Fleisher）、杜蕾克（Rosalyn Tureck）等钢琴家学习。

 

 

1994年，17岁的列夫席兹在毕业音乐会上弹奏了巴赫的《哥德堡变奏曲》，日本哥伦伦亚唱片公司听到如此充满情感的诠释和细腻的音乐，大为惊艳，随即将这场演奏灌录成唱片。唱片于1996 年发行，立即入围当年的格莱美奖。《纽约时报》乐评人罗斯史坦更是大为赞扬列夫席兹的演奏：“这是继伟大的古尔德之后，最强大的钢琴诠释。”仅仅一年后，年仅20岁的他以录音专辑（巴赫的《法国组曲》 、舒曼的《蝴蝶》、梅特涅与史克里亚宾作品集）赢得了德国“ Echo Klassik”（古典回声）颁发的“欧洲年度最佳艺术家”大奖，目前已出版了十余张音乐专辑。

 

“To say that Mr. Lifschitz made his playing look easy would not be quite accurate. What he offered was a performance of such poetry that the question of whether executing it was difficult hardly came to mind.” —New York Times

 

“Lifschitz maximised the instrument’s potential for colour and tonal variety…the gentle, unshowy authority of his stage manner, that he was most persuasive, emphasising the work’s qualities as living music as opposed to historic monument.” —The Guardian

 

“This was due to Lifschitz’s sovereign technique. Variations of touch, tone and pedalling were not only sensitive, with bell-like upper lines and beautifully weighted chordal sonorities, but almost invariably functional, highlighting structural change. It was the most magical moment in a deeply satisfying evening.” —The Independent

 

Konstantin Lifschitz has established a worldwide reputation for performing extraordinary feats of endurance with honesty and persuasive beauty. He is giving recitals and playing concertos in the world’s leading concert halls and orchestras, besides being an active recording artist. His performance was praised as “the most magical moment” and “deeply satisfying” by The Independent, and “naturally expressive and gripping” by the New York Times.

 

Born in Kharkov, Ukraine in 1976, at the age of five, Konstantin Lifschitz was enrolled in the Gnessin Special School of Music in Moscow as a pupil of Tatiana Zelikman. After graduating he continued his studies in Russia, England and Italy where his teachers included Alfred Brendel, Leon Fleisher, Theodor Gutmann, Hamish Milne, Charles Rosen, Karl-Ulrich Schnabel, Vladimir Tropp, Fou T’song, and Rosalyn Tureck, mostly at the Lieven International Piano Foundation.

 

In the early 1990s, Konstantin Lifschitz received a grant from the Russian Cultural Foundation. Around that time, he started to perform in European Musical capitals such as Paris, Amsterdam, Vienna, Munich and Milan. He toured Japan with The Moscow Virtuosi under Vladimir Spivakov, while in Europe he toured with the St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra under Yuri Temirkanov, and also performed with Mischa Maisky and Gidon Kremer in many European cites. In 1995 he received the ECHO Klassik Award of “The Best Emerging Artist of the Year” for his first recording, and the following year he was nominated for a Grammy award for Bach’s Goldberg Variations.

 

Since his sensational debut recital in the October Hall of the House of Unions in Moscow at the age of 13, Konstantin Lifschitz performs solo recitals at major festivals and the most important concert venues worldwide and appears with leading international orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, RAI National Symphony Orchestra or Danish National Symphony Orchestra.

 

As a soloist Konstantin Lifschitz has collaborated with leading conductors such as Mstislav Rostropovich, Vladimir Spivakov, Yury Temirkanov, Sir Neville Marriner, Bernard Haitink, Sir Roger Norrington, Fabio Luisi, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Marek Janowski, Eliahu Inbal, Mikhail Jurowsky, Andrey Boreyko, Dimitry Liss, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Alexander Rudin, and Christopher Hogwood.

 

As a chamber musician, Konstantin Lifschitz has collaborated with such artists as Gidon Kremer, Maxim Vengerov, Vadim Repin, Misha Maisky, Mstislav Rostropovich, Natalia Gutman, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Lynn Harrell, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Daishin Kashimoto, Leila Josefowicz, Carolin und Jörg Widmann, Sol Gabetta, Eugene Ugorski, Alexander Knyazev, and Alexander Rudin.

 

Recently he gave solo recitals at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Moscow Philharmonic Hall and Tchaikovsky Hall, La Sala Verdi Milano, St. Petersburg Mariinsky and Novosibirsk Great Hall and many others. He is also invited by numerous festivals including Tokyo Spring Festival, Rancho La Puerta’s Music Festival, XII Mariinsky International Piano Festival, London Piano Festival, Würzburg Bachtage and Musiktage Höri Bodensee, where he serves as an honorary patron.

 

In the season 2022-23 highlight includes his return to the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Tchaikovsky Hall and Moscow Concert Hall “Zaryadye” for solo recitals, Bach Cycles in Kaohsiung and Taipei (total 9 concerts), play and lead concerts with the Chamber Orchestra “Musica Viva” and collaboration with the New Opera Orchestra (Moscow). He appears festivals such as Festival VERÃO CLÁSSICO, Festival Les Nuits Pianistiques Aix-en-Provence and Würzburger Bachtage.

Konstantin Lifschitz appears as a conductor with such ensembles and orchestras as Moscow Virtuosi, Century Orchestra Osaka, Solisti di Napoli Naples, Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Wernigerode, St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra Vilnius, Musica Viva Moscow, Lux Aeterna and Gabreli Choir Budapest, Dalarna Sinfonietta Falun, and Chamber Orchestra Arpeggione Hohenems. Leading from the piano, he released all of Bach’s seven keyboard concertos with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra which let to another European tour. In 2019 he successfully led the China journey of the Lucerne Chamber Philharmony, which was founded and artistically directed by himself.

 

As a prolific recording artist, he has been releasing numerous CDs and DVDs, many of which have received exceptional reviews. Amongst them are 8 recordings for the Orfeo label including Bach’s Musical Offering, the St. Anne Prelude and Fugue and Three Frescobaldi Toccatas (2007), Gottfried von Einem Piano Concerto with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (2009), Brahms Second Concerto and Mozart Concerto K. 456 under Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (2010), Bach The Art of Fugue (2010), the complete Bach Concertos for keyboard and orchestra with the Stuttgart Kammerorchester (2011), Goldberg Variations (2015) and “Saisons Russes” with works of Ravel, Debussy, Stravinsky and Jakoulov (2016). In 2008, a live recording of Lifschitz’s performance of Bach Well-Tempered Clavier (Books I and II) at the Miami International Piano Festival was released on DVD by VAI. In 2014, Beethoven’s complete violin Sonatas with Daishin Kashimoto was released by Warner Classics. In 2020 to celebrate the composer’s 250 years jubilee Lifschitz released CD and Vinyl Box of Beethoven’s Complete 32 Piano Sonatas with Alpha Classics (Live recordings).

 

Konstantin Lifschitz is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in London and has been appointed a professor of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts since 2008.

 

【演出曲目】

 

弗雷德里克·肖邦 Frederic Chopin

 

玛祖卡 精选

Mazurkas

 

1) Fis Moll Op. 6 Nr. 1

2) F Moll Op. 7 Nr. 3

3) A Moll Op. 17 Nr. 4

4) C Dur Op. 24 Nr. 2

5) B Moll Op. 24 Nr. 4

6) As Dur Op. 41 Nr. 4

7) C Dur Op. 56 Nr. 2

8 ) C Moll Op. 56 Nr. 3

9) Fis Moll Op. 59 Nr. 3

 

——中场休息——

 

弗雷德里克·肖邦 Frederic Chopin

 

降B小调第二钢琴奏鸣曲，作品35

Piano Sonata No.2 in B-flat minor Op.35

 

* 曲目以现场为准 Program is subject to change