CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS

Performance Thursday, May 15, 2014 | 8 PM

Emanuel Ax

Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage Seating Chart
Emanuel Ax is "an extremely satisfying pianist; he is at home in a wide variety of music and his pianism is always thoughtful, lyrical, lustrous” (The Washington Post). The multifaceted music-maker shows off his command of a wide array of repertoire with this inventive program that honors Brahms’s legacy, pairing keyboard classics by Brahms with the New York premieres of stunning new works by acclaimed contemporary composers Brett Dean and Missy Mazzoli.

Performers

  • Emanuel Ax, Piano

Program

  • Program to include
  • BRAHMS Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel
  • BRAHMS Piano Sonata No. 2 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 2
  • BRETT DEAN New Work for Solo Piano (NY Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
  • MISSY MAZZOLI New Work for Solo Piano (NY Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)

Audio

Brahms's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel (Fuga moderato)
Emanuel Ax, Piano
Sony Classical

Sponsored by Breguet, Exclusive Timepiece of Carnegie Hall
Lead support for Carnegie Hall commissions is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
This performance is part of Keyboard Virtuosos II.

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