Valentina Lisitsa.By Greg StepanichBOCA RATON -- "Did Beethoven write that just to drive pianists crazy?" a man in the audience asked Valentina Lisitsa on Wednesday night just after the pianist had finished taking her listeners through Beethoven's momentous Hammerklavier Sonata."He was crazy," a woman in the audience said in reply, and in truth the 29th piano sonata of … [Read more...]
ArtsBriefs: ‘Hammerklavier,’ young recitalists, and poets
Pianist Valentina Lisitsa.Going big at the piano: Valentina Lisitsa, a Russian-born pianist long resident in South Florida, tackles two monumental solo piano works tomorrow night at the Boca Steinway Gallery under the aegis of Abram Kreeger's Piano Lovers series. Foremost among them is the Beethoven Hammerklavier Sonata (No. 29 in B-flat, Op. 106) , the composer's longest, most … [Read more...]