Extra concert „Le Piano Symphonique“ Grand Recital II – Evgeny Kissin
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Program
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
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Partita No. 2 in C minor BWV 826 | 20 ’
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Frédéric Chopin (1810 – 1849)
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Nocturne in C sharp minor, op. 27 no. 1 | 5 ’
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Nocturne A flat major, op. 32 no. 2 | 6 ’
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Scherzo E major, op. 54 no. 4 | 10 ’
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Break
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Dmitri Schostakowitsch (1906 – 1975)
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Sonata No. 2 in B minor op. 61 | 27 ’
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From the 24 Preludes and Fugues op. 87:
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No. 15 in D flat major | 5’
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No. 24 in D minor | 11 ’
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Event Description
In March, the Russian master pianist Evgeny Kissin continues the trail he laid at the “Piano Symphonique” in January 2025 with his two-part Shostakovich project, where chamber music works reflected the composer’s artistic will to survive during the Soviet dictatorship. In the recital, however, Kissin broadens the perspective and places Shostakovich in a lineage of European music history that goes back to Bach. After his Partita No. 2 in C minor, he plays works by Bach admirer Frédéric Chopin (Nocturnes and the Scherzo No. 4) as well as the Second Piano Sonata and Preludes and Fugues by Dmitri Shostakovich. The former child prodigy Kissin is also an example of how legendary the careers of great artists are. The 1988 New Year’s Eve concert of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Herbert von Karajan, which made the 17-year-old teenager a star with Tchaikovsky’s first piano concerto, became the quasi-founding myth of his career. The image of the virtuoso romantic who enchants audiences with his singing tone also fits with the fact that Kissin, who lives in New York, London and Paris, avoids the spotlight. It was all the more remarkable that in 2022 he was one of the most famous signatories of an open letter in which Russian musicians made reference to global political events. Romanticism meets the present – the recital program also features Chopin and Shostakovich.
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Mécène Fondatrice et Principale
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Anchor sponsor
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Sponsor
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Kurt and Silvia Huser-Oesch Stiftung
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Maestro’s & Director’s Impulse Fund, Adrian and Isabelle Weiss-Zweifel
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Michael and Emmy Lou Pieper Fonds
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Nadia Guth-Biasini
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Marc Rich Foundation
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