Krystian Zimmermann

Biography

He studied with the academy of music of Katowice with Andrzej Jasinski. Its career was launched when it gained, at 18 years, the first price of the prestigious Concours Chopin of Warsaw in 1975.

It withdraws then circuit pianistic to enrich its repertory.

Especially recognized as specialist in Chopin, it is also a large interpreter of Brahms. Particularly demanding as for its own recordings, it has, on several occasions, makes withdraw sale of the recorded discs (waltz of Chopin, sonatas and ballades of Brahms) which had however caused the enthusiasm of the critic and the public.

It gives each year only one about fifty concerts throughout the world. For a few years, he has travelled with his own piano and is interested of close with the technical possibilities of the instrument. He has at his place his own studio of recording, which does not push it therefore multiplying the discs (less than one every two years). As a leader, it in particular recorded the two concertos of Chopin, while directing the orchestra since the piano the made-to-order of the virtuosos of the 19th century.

Selective discography (Deutsche Grammophon)

Ludwig van Beethoven : 5 concertos for piano (direction Krystian Zimmermann and Leonard Bernstein)
Johannes Brahms: concerto for piano n°1 (direction Simon Rattle)
Johannes Brahms: concerto for piano n°2 (direction Leonard Bernstein)
Frederic Chopin: 2 concertos for piano (direction Krystian Zimmermann)
Witold Lutosławski: concerto for piano (direction Witold Lutosławski)
Bleated Bartok: concertos for piano (direction Pierre Boulez)
Serge Rachmaninov: concertos for piano 1 & 2 (direction Seiji Ozawa)
Maurice Ravel: concertos for piano (direction Pierre Boulez)
Claude Debussy: preludes - books I & II
Franz Liszt: sonata in so minor & other parts
Frederic Chopin: 4 ballades, Barcarolle & Imagination
Franz Liszt: concertos for piano (direction Seiji Ozawa), Totentanz

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