Louis Lortie, piano

"Louis Lortie's delightful performance appeared lit from within, extraneous force and decoration banished: there were just the notes dancing." -- Times (London)

Praised equally for his gossamer-light delicacy, his intensely expressive phrasing, and his effortless technique, Canadian Louis Lortie is an international treasure. Come hear this award-winning pianistÕs flawless and elegant playing of a superb program of Schubert, Berlioz, Liszt, and Ravel before he performs it at Carnegie Hall later in the season.

PROGRAM Franz Schubert: Selections from Valses nobles and Valses sentimentales; Liszt-Schubert: Soirees de Vienne No. 6 (Valse-Caprice d'apres Franz Schubert); Hector Berlioz: Un bal (Valse: Allegro non troppo) (trans. of the 2nd movement of Symphonie fantastique, arr. by Liszt); Franz Liszt: Valses oubliees Nos. 1 and 2 and Valse de l'opera Faust (Concert paraphrase from Gounod's Faust); Helmut Lachenmann: Five Variations on a Theme of Schubert; Maurice Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales and La valse