KLAVIERRECITAL PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD | PETER ZUMTHOR 3

Program

Johann Sebastian Bach: Das wohltemperierte Klavier (Auszüge) (1722) - 105'
Milica Djordjević: Role playing 1: strings attached (2020 EA)
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György Kurtág: Játékok (Auszüge) (1973 ab)
Franz Schubert: Tänze
György Kurtag: Späte Werke

Cast

Pierre-Laurent Aimard: Klavier

The FAZ wrote that his performance of the "new Magna Charta of piano playing" was "titanic", and that Pierre-Laurent Aimard had mastered "the impossible" in György Ligeti's Etudes – that’s just one example of the brilliant reviews this perfectionist of the piano has recently received at the Salzburger Festspiele.

"The actual creation happens in composing, of course, but we performers are also allowed to be creative; that should not be lost in our industrialized era. So I try to find a meaningful program from scratch for every occasion. In this case, two institutions come together. One can seem like a temple of tradition: the Musikverein; the other represents the forces of the new: Wien Modern. I have tried to build a common world in a creative way. [Add to that] this wonderful residence by Peter Zumthor. That moved me to make a double construction, two antiphonies, but according to different principles. In the first part, the fraternisation of Johann Sebastian Bach and György Kurtág brings attention to the material. In Bach's work, even the smallest architecture grows from strong themes, each basic idea unfolds extreme structural power. This includes so many layers that all possible developments in the piece sound organic. In Kurtág's case, the basic material is also strikingly communicative, but his strategy is completely different: he made tabula rasa and then developed his composing completely anew. That's how many of his pieces sound, at least to me. So in both cases the material is very striking, but then it's organised very differently. My programme plays with this contrast." (Pierre-Laurent in conversation with Walter Weidringer, Musikfreunde Magazine, November 2023)

Kuratiert von Peter Zumthor, Stephan Pauly und Bernhard Günther
Produktion Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien
Koproduktion Wien Modern
Im Rahmen der Musikverein Perspektiven: Peter Zumthor