The opening of this year’s “PIANISSIMO – Between Classical & Jazz” Festival promises to be a resounding success thanks to the duo featuring Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn at two grand pianos.
American jazz pianist Vijay Iyer is one of the outstanding, most successful and most inspiring pianists of his generation, while Craig Taborn, who plays as a sideman and leader in ensembles, is one of the most interesting musicians on the present-day jazz scene.
One day after the grand opening, there will be a radical swing to the classical genre with the acclaimed piano duo Tal & Groethuysen, playing a mixed programme of works by Bach’s son Wilhelm Friedemann, W. A. Mozart, Théo Ysaÿe and Richard Strauss.
After playing Schubert‘s late Sonata D 960, Herbert Schuch will dedicate the second part of his programme to the composer whose 200th birthday we celebrate in 2011, Franz Liszt.
Florian Uhlig will perform Beethoven‘s Diabelli Variations for us, before jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim takes the stage a day later – yet another master in his field.
Liszt specialist Nelson Goerner presents a programme dedicated to Liszt and in particular to W.A. Mozart and Frédéric Chopin, while Sebastian Knauer, whom we have so recently enjoyed hearing play alongside Daniel Hope in Schloss Elmau, will contrast two central sonatas by Mozart and Beethoven, followed by an adaptation of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy‘s Songs without Words and his Rondo Capriccioso in E major.
Nicholas Angelich, highly acclaimed by the music press, will bring the festival to a close with J. S. Bach‘s Goldberg Variations.
PIANISSIMO is Schloss Elmau’s annual piano festival around Easter, a showcase for today’s pianists in classical & jazz.
Tickets to all performances are available at kultur-buero@schloss-elmau.
Dr. Silke Zimmermann
Artistic Director
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Programma generale
Lunedì 18 aprile, ore 19.00
pianisti Vijay Iyer e Craig Taborn
Martedì 19 aprile, ore 19.00
Duo pianistico Yaara Tal & Andreas Groethuysen
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784): Concerto a due cembali in fa maggiore (1740)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Sonata per due pianoforti KV 448 (1781)
Théo Ysaÿe (1865-1918): Variations pour deux pianos op. 10 (1910)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949): I tiri burloni di Till Eulenspiegel, op. 28 (1895)
(Trascrizione per due pianoforti di Otto Singer)
Mercoledì 20 aprile, ore 19.00
Herbert Schuch, pianoforte
Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Sonata n. 21 in si maggiore D.960
Franz Liszt (1811-1886): Sonata in si minore
Giovedì 21 Aprile, ore 19.00
Florian Uhlig, pianoforte
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827):33 Variazioni su un Valzer di Anton Diabelli in do maggiore, op. 120
Sabato 23 aprile, ore 19.00
Abdullah Ibrahim, pianoforte
Lunedì 25 aprile, ore 19.00
Nelson Goerner, pianoforte
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Sonata n. 4 in mi bemolle maggiore KV282
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849): Dodici Studi, op. 10
Frédéric Chopin: Barcarolle in fa diesis maggiore, op. 60
Franz Liszt (1811-1886): Sonata in si minore
Mercoledì 27 aprile, ore 19.00
Sebastian Knauer, pianoforte
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Sonata n. 14 in do minore KV457
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Sonata n. 14 in do diesis minore, op. 27 Nr. 2 “Al chiaro di luna“
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Selezione dalle “Romanze senza parole“
Rondo capriccioso in mi maggiore, op. 14
Venerdì 29 Aprile, ore 19.00
Nicholas Angelich, pianoforte
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Variazioni Goldberg BWV 988
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