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

Hélène Grimaud

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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