Recital with Claire Huangci (Piano)
Please take a seat, make yourself comfortable – because what follows is musical enjoyment at its finest. Frédéric Chopin's Piano Sonata No.2 in B flat minor has become famous for its funeral march, a piece of music of staggering magnitude, pictorial and full of gestures.
A small reference to this can be found in the "Great Gate to Kyiv", with which Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" ends. "Pictures" is to be taken literally here, as the multifaceted cycle depicts a walk by two gentlemen through an exhibition. The climax is certainly the weird dispute between the portly, rich Goldenberg and the croaking, miserable Schmuyle. Anything that can be expressed with sounds alone.
The artist
Claire Huangci (piano)
The American pianist, born in Rochester (New York), studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia from 2003 to 2007 before continuing and graduating from 2007 to 2016 with Arie Vardi at the Music Academy in Hanover. As early as 2011, Huangci was the youngest participant to win second prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich; In 2018 she was awarded the first prize and the Mozart Prize at the "Concours Géza Anda". She has performed with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the Basel Chamber Orchestra, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Symphony Orchestra, the China Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra with conductors such as Sir Roger Norrington, Mario Venzago, Howard Griffiths and Cornelius Master. Invitations have taken her to the festivals in Lucerne, Verbier, Rheingau and Schleswig-Holstein, to the Würzburg Mozart Festival and to the Ruhr Piano Festival. Claire Huangci has released solo CDs of works by Bach, Scarlatti, Chopin and Rachmaninoff, for which she has been awarded the German Record Critics' Prize and Gramophone Magazine's Editor's Choice. A recording of piano concertos by Chopin and Paderewski was released in 2019; In the summer of 2020, she and her trio Machiavelli presented their first chamber music album with Ravel's piano trio and Chausson's piano quartet. She recorded violin sonatas and Mendelssohn's double concerto with violinist Marc Bouchkov.
www.clairehuangci.com
The program in detail
Frederic Chopin (1810–1849)
Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor op. 35 (1839)
Grave - Doppio movimento Scherzo
Marche funèbre. lento finale Presto
Modest Mussorgky (1839–1881)
Pictures at an Exhibition (1874)
promenade
1. The dwarf
promenade
2. The old castle
promenade
3. The Tuileries
4. Bydlo
promenade
5. Dance of the chicks in their shells
6.Samuel Goldenberg & Schmuyle
7. The Limoges market square
8. Catacombs: Roman Tombs –
With the dead in dead language
9. Baba Yaga: The Hut on Chicken Feet
10. The Great Gate of Kyiv
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Administrative Notes
Costs (per person): CHF 60.-- (free for membership sponsors and friends).
Students and trainees (only with a valid ID): CHF 10.--