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Monday, November 15, 2010 at 8:00 p.m.
Zipper Concert Hall at the Colburn School
Zipper Concert Hall at the Colburn School
The Messenger
Sometimes a program can be a super-composition: a sequence of diverse pieces that somehow speak to one another, and say together more than any of them could say by itself. So it is here, in a set that also offers a rare opportunity to experience one of the world’s great pianists. Lubimov was formed in the declining Soviet Union, like several of the composers he features, and he shares with them an immediacy that is richly nuanced, a vast range of expression pervaded by an essential purity. There will be tragedy here and quiet intimacy, distance and freshness, form breaking under the strain of emotion, and through it all the gleam of beauty.
Monday Evening Concerts dedicates this concert to the memory of Ernest Fleischmann.
Performer
Alexei Lubimov piano
Program
C.P.E. Bach
Fantasia in F-sharp minor (“C.P.E. Bach's Feelings”)
John Cage
In a Landscape
Tigran Mansurian
Nostalgia
Franz Liszt
La lugubre gondola II
Frederic Chopin
Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 45
Georgs Pelecis
Suite No. 3: Movements IV. and V.
Galina Ustvolskaya
Sonata No. 6
Arvo Pärt
Für Alina
Valentin Silvestrov
Der Bote (The Messenger)
Notes
Read the Program Notes by Paul Griffiths
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Sound sample: Alexei Lubimov, ECM Records
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