Keyboard Virtuosos I

"It can be hard not to wax hyperbolic when confronted with pianist Piotr Anderszewski’s sensitive touch and potent imagination" (The New York Times). The charismatic pianist brings his ingenious interpretational prowess to some of Bach’s most spirited and popular keyboard works, including his sublimely beautiful Italian Concerto. The program also includes selections from his English and French dance suites—early works that have little to do with France and England, and everything to do with Bach’s genius in creating complex yet inviting and eminently listenable music.

Hailed as “the Italian arch-aristocrat of the piano” by The Independent (London), Maurizio Pollini is one of those rare artists whose stature compels you to see him in performance. His craft is “so accomplished it thrills on its own terms” (The Boston Globe); to witness the “steely brilliance” that is “virtually infallible” (The New York Times), you must hear him play—especially in a venue as special as Carnegie Hall.