Het Parool – 21-09-2011
ERIK VOERMANS
Photographer: Alek

On their second CD for Deutsche Grammophon – to be released in two days’ time – Lucas and Arthur Jussen play piano works by Schubert. “Confusion really is the funniest thing there is”
Will it never stop, all these words of praise for Lucas and Arthur Jussen? Well, not for the time being probably. In June the young piano-playing brothers from Hilversum received the very first Concertgebouw Young Talent Award; at the 2011 Edison Classical Gala in the Kurhaus in Scheveningen they received the Edison Public Award, and of course there was the gold and platinum for their debut CD with Deutsche Grammophon.
“We definitively had not expected it,” Arthur (14) says. He and his brother Lucas (18) have again chosen their favourite restaurant for another afternoon of interviews and other press things. The day after tomorrow their second CD with DG will be released, this time with works by Schubert.
Lucas: “We really could not have imagined the way the CD has been received. Of course, gold and platinum are great, but that’s mainly a commercial thing. We were especially pleased that critics too appreciated the CD.”
This sincere modesty is to their credit. Their parents (both musicians) do keep the Jussens firmly down to earth. Lucas and Arthur obviously know that they are very talented, but they also know they still have an awful lot to learn – a characteristic of the really great.