Piano Recital: Víkingur Ólafsson & Yuja Wang
Piano Recital: Víkingur Ólafsson & Yuja Wang
Yuja Wang Klavier
Franz Schubert Fantasie f-Moll D 940 für Klavier zu vier Händen
John Cage «Experiences No. 1» für zwei Klaviere
Conlon Nancarrow Studie Nr. 6 (Arr. für zwei Klaviere Thomas Adès)
John Adams «Hallelujah Junction» für zwei Klaviere
Pause Arvo Pärt «Hymn to a Great City» für zwei Klaviere
Sergej Rachmaninow Sinfonische Tänze op. 45 für zwei Klaviere
If someone had said before the 2024/25 season plans were published that Yuja Wang and Víkingur Ólafsson would present a four-hand piano programme, the answer would have been clear: Dream on! But now this dream is actually becoming reality. And when you look at their programme, you can assume that they are also fulfilling a few dreams of their own. Because it contains everything that two pianists who are as dexterous as they are clever like: refined, highly virtuosic, experimental, breathtaking, jazzy, iconic, surprising. And yes, even the unplayable – such as Study No. 1, which Conlin Nancarrow wrote for a mechanical piano regardless of anatomical possibilities.
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