From Liszt to Lisitsa
Valentina Lisitsa, Piano
Bennett Gordon Hall
Thursday, August 18, 2011
6:00 PM
Gates Open
7:00 PM
Concert Starts
$10 reserved
No Lawn tickets
No Lawn tickets
Program
| Mozart: | Fantasy in C Minor, K.475 |
| Chopin: | 7 Nocturnes |
| Op. 55, No. 1 in F Minor | |
| Op. 15, No. 1 in F Major | |
| Op. 27, No. 1 in C-sharp Minor | |
| Op. 15, No. 2 in F Sharp Major | |
| Op. 48, No. 1 in C Minor | |
| Op. 27, No. 2 in D-flat Major | |
| Op. 9, No. 2 in E-flat Major | |
| Godowsky: | Symphonic Metamorphosis on J. Strauss’s “ Die Fledermaus” |
| Schubert/arr. Liszt: | Gute nacht |
| Das Mädchens Klage |
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| Der Doppelgänger |
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| Erlkönig |
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| Der Müller und der Bach |
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| Ständchen |
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| Schubert: | Impromptu in B-flat Major, Op. 142, No. 3 |
| Liszt: | Totentanz for solo piano |
About The Artist
Born in Kiev, Ukraine, Valentina Lisitsa has won ovations and rave reviews ever since her 1995 American debut at Lincoln Center. “To put it simply,” according to Britain’s Sun, “Lisitsa is a gigantic talent. She has infallible fingers, imagination and a control of dynamics— from the softest to the loudest sounds— little short of electrifying.” Her program reflects a Lisztian sensibility, from Mozart (to whom the young Liszt was compared) to his great colleague Chopin and arrangements of Schubert songs, which Liszt admired and promoted. She concludes with an interpretation of Liszt’s own awesome Totentanz that La Presse called “15 minutes of a pianistic deployment beyond any imagination.”
