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Musikfest Berlin
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Charles Ives’s Concord Sonata is one of the 20th century’s most monumental piano sonatas – a flood of sound that is ludicrously demanding, with three systems of notation instead of the usual two. A challenge – even for an internationally accalimed pianist like Pierre-Laurent Aimard. The sonata makes reference to the American transcendentalist movement, for which the town of Concord was akin to a Weimar of the USA: it was here, in the middle of the 19th century, that writers such as Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne all lived. A concentration of talent that is reminiscent of Vienna in the early days of new music, which was central to the evening’s other featured composer: Arnold Schönberg.
Artists
Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano
Programme
Arnold Schoenberg
Three Piano Pieces, op. 11
Arnold Schoenberg
Six little Piano Pieces, op. 19
Arnold Schoenberg
Five Piano Pieces, op. 23
Arnold Schoenberg
Piano Piece, op. 33a
Arnold Schoenberg
Piano Piece, op. 33b
Arnold Schoenberg
Suite for piano, op. 25
Interval
Charles Ives
Piano Sonata No. 2 “Concord, Mass., 1840 – 60ˮ
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In co-operation with Berliner Festspiele
Chamber Music Hall
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19:10
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