| 20:00 | From young to old
Incredible piano world
Tonal intoxication with Erard und Pleyel
Orangery Palace Sanssouci | Raffael Hall / Address: An der Orangerie 3-5, 14469 Potsdam
artists
Alexei Lubimov, Viacheslav Poprugin
Grand concert pianos by Erard and Pleyel from the collection of Piano Salon Christophori Berlin
Milo Lohse, speaker
program
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune in the version for 2 pianos
Préludes for solo piano (selection)
Trois Nocturnes: Nuages - Fêtes - Sirènes in the version for 2 pianos by Maurice Ravel
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Sports et Divertissements for solo piano
Cinéma Symphonic music for the film "Relâche" in the version for four-handed piano by Darius Milhaud, arranged by Alexei Lubimov
description
Paris was the 19th century's piano megacity. Erard and Pleyel built technically ever more sophisticated instruments for the piano elite and the French were the avant-garde when it came to discovering incredible piano worlds beyond Liszt. As timbre magician and master of poetic compression Claude Debussy was a revolutionary as was Erik Satie with his radical minimalism and his acidic humour that got rid of all hollow art pathos: hard to believe he is turning 150 this year! Alexei Lubimov is a unique pianist known for unlimited musical curiosity from Baroque to the present. Together with his congenial duo partner Viacheslav Poprugin they play on historical instruments - always on to that special sound that magically lends new wings to the music.
In cooperation with the Piano Salon Christophori Berlin
