Robert Schumann Arabesque in C major op. 18, Fantasy in C major op. 17
Frédéric Chopin Mazurka in C minor op. 56/3, Barcarolle in F-sharp major op. 60,
Ballade No. 4 in F minor op. 52, Scherzo No. 1 in B minor op. 20
A life for music: for more than six decades Maurizio Pollini has left his mark on international musical life as one of the great pianists of our time. He has dealt with many composers and epochs in his extensive artistic output, but one constant is his preoccupation with the work of Frédéric Chopin - as documented by his first prize at the Warsaw Chopin Competition in 1960. Thus, when the Italian pianist accepts the invitation to the Great Hall of the Alte Oper for a solo evening on Thursday, November 11, 2021 from 8:00 p.m., works by Chopin will once again be on the program, paired with music by Robert Schumann and thus another important anchor point in the pianist's oeuvre.
With Schumann's finely spun Arabesque op. 18 and the all the more wildly passionate Fantasy op. 17, Maurizio Pollini devotes himself to two works that challenge the performer in different ways. Frédéric Chopin's Scherzo No. 1, which Pollini places at the end of his recital, is also radical in its own way. Probably composed at the beginning of the 1830s, the Scherzo, impetuous, gloomy and marked by dissonance, had already perplexed the Chopin admirer Schumann, so that "one must ask, however, how seriousness should clothe itself when 'jest' already walks in dark veils". The other works of the evening are Chopin's Mazurka in C minor, Op. 56/3, the Barcarolle, Op. 60, and the Ballade No. 4, Op. 52.
€ 35,- / 42,- / 52,- / 62,- / 72,- (final prices)
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