CARNEGIEHALL CELEBRATES THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR OF THE BIRTH OF
COMPOSER/PIANIST FRANZ LISZT WITH THREE EVENTS THIS WINTER
Carnegie Hall Hosts a Discovery Day Devoted to Liszt on Saturday, January 29,
Led by Liszt Scholar Alan Walker and Featuring Noted Author and Pianist CharlesRosen,
Plus Performances by Gregory DeTurck, Angela Meade, and Bradley Moore
Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet Performs All-Liszt Recital on February 2
Pianist Evgeny Kissin Offers Music By Liszt on March 9
In early 2011, Carnegie Hall celebrates the 200thanniversary year of Hungarian composer/pianist Franz Liszt’s birth with twosolo piano recitals by leading artists and a special Discovery Day, devoted tothe Romantic era musician’s life and work. On Saturday, January 29, beginningat 1:00 p.m., Carnegie Hall hosts an afternoon-long Discovery Day dedicated tothis legendary figure in music history. Led by noted musicologist and Lisztscholar Alan Walker, the day will include panel discussions and readingsas well as musical performances by pianist Gregory DeTurck, soprano AngelaMeade, and pianist Bradley Moore. Carnegie Hall’s Director ofArtistic Planning, Jeremy Geffen, serves as the event’s moderator and isjoined by Mr. Walker and noted American pianist and author Charles Rosen.Mr. Rosen studied piano with Moriz Rosenthal, a former student of Franz Liszthimself.
In addition to being a pioneering composer who anticipated some of the 20thcentury’s upcoming musical shifts, Franz Liszt (1811–1886) was said by hispeers to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age and perhapseven the greatest pianist of all time. A popular performer, he was the first togive solo piano recitals in the modern sense of the word. Marking hisbicentennial year, Carnegie Hall also presents two all-Liszt recitals by two ofthe most highly acclaimed pianists today. On Wednesday, February 2 at 8:00 p.m.,pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet performs an all-Liszt program in SternAuditorium/Perelman Stage with repertoire ranging from a work inspired byFrench Romantic poetry to music honoring Saint Francis of Assisi (Légend No.1 and No. 2), as well as his re-workings of material by contemporariesChopin (Meine Freuden from Chants polonaise) and Wagner (Isolde'sLiebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde). Complete programinformation is listed below.
The following month, on Wednesday, March 9 at 8:00 p.m. in SternAuditorium/Perelman Stage, pianist Evgeny Kissin performs an all-Lisztprogram including a piece commemorating the 1848 revolution in the composer’snative Hungary (Funérailles from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses)and a sonata dedicated to Schumann (Sonata in B Minor). Complete programinformation is listed below.
Program Information
Saturday, January 29, 2011 at 1:00 p.m.
Weill Recital Hall
DISCOVERY DAY: FRANZ LISZT
Alan Walker, Keynote Speaker and Consultant
Charles Rosen, Speaker
Gregory DeTurck, Piano
Angela Meade, Soprano
Bradley Moore, Piano
Jeremy Geffen, Moderator
1:00-1:50 Keynote Address: Liszt as Cultural Ambassador of the 19th Century
Alan Walker
2:00-2:50 Performance: Aspects of Liszt
Gregory DeTurck, Piano
FRANZ LISZT Etude d’exécution transcendante No. 10
FRANZ LISZT Au bord d’une source
FRANZ LISZT Réminiscences de Norma
FRANZ LISZT Hungarian Rhapsody No. 10 in E Major
FRANZ LISZT Légend No. 2: St. François de Paule marchant sur les flots,S. 175/2
FRANZ LISZT Bagatelle ohne Tonart
FRANZ LISZT Unstern! Sinistre, disastro
3:00-3:45 Dramatic Reading
3:45-4:15 Break
4:15-5:00 Performance
Angela Meade, Soprano
Bradley Moore, Piano
FRANZ LISZT Tre sonetti di Petrarca
Pace non trovo
Benedetto sia'l giorno
I' vidi in terra angelici costumi
FRANZ LISZT Drei Lieder aus Schillers Wilhelm Tell
Der Fischerknabe
Der Hirt
Der Alpenjäger
FRANZ LISZT "Oh! Quand je dors" ("Élégie Etienne Monnier")
FRANZ LISZT "Enfant, si j’étais roi"
5:10-6:00 Panel Discussion
Alan Walker
Charles Rosen
Jeremy Geffen, Moderator
Tickets: $22
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 8:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage
JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET, Piano
ALL-LISZT PROGRAM
Consolations, second version
Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este
Légend No. 1: St François d’Assise
Légend No. 2: St. François de Paule marchant sur les flots
Meine Freuden from Chants polonaise (after Chopin)
Ballade No. 2 in B Minor
Isolde's Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
Tarantella from Venezia e Napoli
Tickets from $34-$99
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 8:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage
EVGENY KISSIN, Piano
ALL-LISZT PROGRAM
Etude No. 9 in A-Flat Major, "Ricordanza"
Sonata in B Minor
Funérailles from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, secondversion
Vallée d'Obermann from Années de pèlerinage, première année:Suisse,No. 6
Venezia e Napoli
Sponsored by Ernst & Young LLP
Tickets from $49-$153
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