Music@Menlo 2014 Festival
Carte Blanche Concert IV: Gilles Vonsattel, piano
- When
- Sun Aug 3, 2014
- Where
- Stent Family Hall, Menlo School
- Time
- 10:30 AM
- Tags
- Music, Classical Music
Description
Praised by the New York Times as “a pianist well worth watching,” Gilles Vonsattel follows his 2013 festival debut with a recital program centered on themes of nationalism and revolution. The program begins with two groundbreaking works by Beethoven: Six Bagatelles and the Moonlight Sonata. Liszt’s Funérailles, written in memory of the crushing of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, signals the awakening of a new national voice. Janáček’s Sonata 1.X.1905 is of a similar elegiac nature, mourning the death of a slain Czech protester. The program concludes with Saint-Saëns’s exotic Africa fantasy and Frederic Rzewski’s Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues, based on a workers’ song from the Industrial Revolution.Tickets: $70 (full price) | $30 (under age thirty)
More Info
- Link
- http://www.musicatmenlo.org
- Call
- 650.330.2030 (Box Office)
- Contact Form (account required)
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