PIANO RECITAL
HÉLÈNE GRIMAUD
January 09, 2022
Overview
Pianist Hélène Grimaud takes center stage in a recital that highlights her breathtaking intuition and inventiveness. The program sparkles with miniatures, including Claude Debussy’s bewitching Clair de lune, alongside the sleek minimalism of Erik Satie’s Gnossiennes, tuneful gems by contemporary Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov, and spellbinding mazurakas and waltzes by piano royalty, Frédéric Chopin. The program concludes in spectacular fashion with Robert Schumann’s Kreisleriana, a kaleidoscopic spectrum of shifting moods regarded by many (including Schumann) as the composer’s finest composition.Artists
Piano
Program
Valentin
Silvestrov
Bagatelle No. 1
Claude
Debussy
Arabesque No. 1 in E major
Valentin
Silvestrov
Bagatelle No. 2
Erik
Satie
Gnossienne No. 4
Frédéric
Chopin
Nocturne in E minor, Opus 72, no.1
Erik
Satie
Gnossienne No. 1
Erik
Satie
En y regardant à deux foix, from Six pièces froides
Claude
Debussy
La Plus que lente
Frédéric
Chopin
Mazurka in A minor, Opus 17, no.4
Frédéric
Chopin
Waltz in A minor, Opus 34, no.2
Claude
Debussy
Clair de lune, from Suite bergamasque
Claude
Debussy
Rêverie
Robert
Schumann
Kreisleriana, Opus 16
Erik
Satie
Passer, from Six pièces froides
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