Thursday, September 24, 2020 ▪ Mozart Hall ▪ 6:00 pm
Olivier Messiaen "L'alouette lulu" from: Catalogue d'oiseaux
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor op. 27/2
"Moonlight Sonata"
Olivier Messiaen "La chouette hulotte" from: Catalogue d'oiseaux
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in F minor No. 23 op. 57 "Appassionata"
Karlheinz Stockhausen Piano Piece IX
Thursday, September 24, 2020 ▪ Mozart Hall ▪ 21.30 Uhr
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Fantasia cromatica
Alban Berg Sonata op. 1
George Benjamin Shadowlines: 6 canonic Préludes
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata no. 31 A-flat major op. 110
New to the program
Lunchtime concert with Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Friday, 25. September 2020 ▪ Great Hall ▪ 13.00 to 13.30 pm
György Ligeti Musica ricercata (selection)
Ludwig van Beethoven Bagatelles (selection)
Reconsidered, reconceived: Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard is among the artists who in the past have regularly enriched the focal points of the Alte Oper Frankfurt with tailor-made programmes. When the Alte Oper returns to concert activity in September 2020 after a long corona-induced closure, the French pianist will be back in the game, and even more frequently than originally planned. Instead of his piano recital actually planned for the Musikfest, Aimard is designing three different programmes at once, each conceived around this year's anniversary composer Beethoven, which he will present in two evening concerts and a lunchtime concert.
On Thursday, September 24, 2020, the pianist will set works by Ludwig van Beethoven and Olivier Messiaen in relation to each other at 6 p.m. in the Mozart Saal of the Alte Oper. Frankfurt audiences were last able to experience why Aimard is considered an undisputed Messiaen expert two years ago, when he performed Messiaen's "Catalogue d'oiseaux" at various venues in the city at the invitation of the Alte Oper. Aimard will now let excerpts from the "Catalogue d'oiseaux" meet Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and his "Appassionata". The program is rounded off by Karlheinz Stockhausen's Klavierstück IX from 1954.
For his second recital on the same evening at 9 p.m. (also in Mozart Hall), Aimard has chosen works from the late Renaissance to the modern era. The centre of gravity is Beethoven's late Sonata op. 110, which Aimard juxtaposes not only with Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck's bold Fantasia cromatica, but also Alban Berg's Sonata op. 1 and music by George Benjamin. The Brit composed his short piano cycle "Shadowlines" in 2001 for his friend Pierre-Laurent Aimard. It was Aimard who presented the highly acclaimed first recording of these "six canonic preludes", as the subtitle deliberately recalls Bach.
The following day, Friday, 25 September 2020, Pierre-Laurent Aimard will then perform a short but intense lunchtime concert in the Great Hall of the Alte Oper from 1pm to 1.30pm. Once again he will trace lines of reference between Beethoven's music and modernism. This time he juxtaposes a selection of Beethoven's late bagatelles with an early work by György Ligeti and plays excerpts from the latter's eleven-part "Musica ricercata". Thus, highly condensed miniatures intertwine that have more in common than the "age difference" of the works would suggest.
Due to new seating and a new conception, tickets already purchased will not remain valid, and a new ticket purchase is required to attend any of the concerts. Previously purchased tickets for the originally announced concert must be returned to the respective box office for a refund.
Evening concerts: each € 40,- (final price)
Lunch concert: € 20,- (final price)
Tickethotline: 069 / 13 40 400
