Wereldpianisten '23/'24
Dit concert is al geweest. Bekijk hieronder de serie Wereldpianisten '23/'24:
- Boris Giltburg - 20 april 2024
Wereldpianisten '24/'25
Dit concert is al geweest. Bekijk hieronder de serie Wereldpianisten '24/'25:
- Aidan Mikdad - 28 september 2024
- Izhar Elias en PuraCorda String Quartet - 2 november 2024
- Caspar Vos - 30 november 2024
- Barry Douglas - 18 januari 2025
- Severin von Eckardstein en Raoul Steffani - 22 februari 2025
- Abdel Rahman El Bacha - 8 maart 2025
- Paul Lewis - 12 april 2025
Programme
Beethoven - Piano Sonata, on. 106, 'Hammerklavier'
Chopin - Piano Sonata No. 2, on. 35
Chopin - Ballad No. 4, on. 52
Filippo Gorini
For Beethoven you have to be with Filippo Gorini! In 2015 he won the important Telekom Beethoven Competition in Beethoven's hometown Bonn. Since then, the music of this great German composer has featured prominently on his programmes. "Brave and original," judged quality newspaper The Guardian on his play. In the Edesche Concert Hall Gorini combines Beethoven's 'Hammerklaviersonate', the most difficult of his piano sonatas, with two classical top hits by Chopin: the 'Second Piano Sonata' and the 'Fourth Ballade'.
Beethoven's Hammerklaviersonate
Beethoven knew that he had composed a unique piece of music with his Piano Sonata no. 29. That is why he gave the work the title: 'Große Sonate für das Hammerklavier' (Great Sonata for the Hammerklavier). Beethoven's contemporaries found the sonata unplayable. It was only ten years after Beethoven's death that none other than Franz Liszt dared to be the first to play the 'Hammerklavier' in public. Everything Beethoven gets out of the closet. In doing so, the composer not only demands the utmost from the pianist, but also from the piano. Admire Filippo Gorini in this 'Mount Everest' among Beethoven's piano sonatas.
Filippo Gorini on the Hammerklaviersonate:
"I played the Hammerklaviersonate a while back in my old high school and the students were speechless. They had no idea that classical music could have so much energy and power. I found it a moving experience."
(Read the interview with Filippo Gorini.)
Chopin's "Marche funèbre
Everyone recognizes Chopin's famous funeral march. In movies the music often sounds when someone dies, but actually the piece has little to do with death. Chopin wrote his funeral march when his engagement to the artist Maria Wodzinski broke down. In the end Chopin was so satisfied with the music that he composed an entire sonata around it
Ballade without story
Of the four ballads Chopin composed, the 'Fourth Ballad' is perhaps the most beautiful. At least, that's what most pianists think. Thus master pianist John Ogdon claimed "Chopin's 'Fourth Ballade' is his "most exalted, his most intense and powerful composition... I can't believe it only lasts twelve minutes, because it encompasses the experience of a lifetime." Wondering what this masterpiece sounds like under the hands of Filippo Gorini? Come and listen!
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