My approach is to sit with the score and make my decisions about what Andante means or what piano means in a certain context; often you go back to recordings and find that nobody’s ever really played it that way. You ask yourself ‘Why is that? Did I misread or misinterpret something? Or is this just a tradition that’s been ingrained by years of taking the same approach? And if that’s the case, shall we simply throw it out and try something new?’. Often it’s the latter, and I’m very happy to be the one to take it upon myself to reset and do only what’s written in the score.
— Jan Lisiecki
Cited in: Katherine Cooper, “Jan Lisiecki on Chopin”, Presto Music, 11 August 2021, https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/articles/4157–interview-jan-lisiecki-on-chopin, accessed 12 August 2021.
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