Tue. 23 February 2010, 8 p.m.
Mendelssohn Saal
Bayer piano cycle (5)
Please note:
Olga Kern
François-Joël Thiollier, Klavier
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Prelude and Fugue No. 20, op. 87
and No. 21, op. 87
CARL CZERNY
Variationen über einen Wiener Walzer
JOHANN STRAUSS | CARL TAUSIG
Valse-Caprice „Man lebt nur einmal“
MAURICE RAVEL
La Valse
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Drei Stücke aus 1890
Ondine
Soirée dans Grenade
GEORGE GERSHWIN
„Tempo di Blues“ aus „Ein Amerikaner in Paris“
Rhapsody in Blue
(Originalbearbeitung für Klavier solo)
Whereas Shostakovich stayed in the Soviet Union and lived in constant conflict with the official artistic ideology, reacting to state brutality and terror with his music, Rachmaninov fled to Sweden to escape the violence of the Russian Revolution, not knowing that he would never again see his homeland.
Olga Kern comes from a musical family that had ties to Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov. She is considered to be an expert on Rachmaninov´s piano works and combines her programme of Russian music with Mily Balakirev´s oriental fantasy "Islamey". This piece is regarded as one of the technically most demanding works of the piano repertoire.
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Organizer:
Historische Stadthalle Wuppertal GmbH, Bayer Kultur
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