Thursday 19, July > 20h
Opéra
Berlioz / Le Corum
Robert Schumann
Kinderszene (Scènes d'enfants) opus 15
Fantasiestücke opus 111
Carnaval de Vienne opus 26
Sonate n°3 en fa mineur opus 14 (Concert sans orchestre)
A generous musician, Aldo Ciccolini is returning to Montpellier for thoughtful new master-classes to share with a few hand-picked students. Let us never forget that, at a time when practically all his fellow pianists were playing the same repertoire, he, on the contrary, was exploring the hidden talents of Alkan, Déodat de Séverac, Satie, Busoni, Granados, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Massenet, Chabrier, Albéniz… But Ravel, Debussy, Liszt, Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann and Janácek were not being neglected for all that—quite the opposite. Paying no heed to passing fashions and committed to music as if it were a calling, who other than he could have shown such fieriness last year in Pizzetti’s Piano Concerto Canti della stagione alta? This year, Aldo Ciccolini is celebrating the Romantic genius of Schumann, with the ingenuous Kinderszenen counterbalanced by the spleen of Faschingsschwank aus Wien and the unreal evocations of the Phantasiestücke, Op. 111
Franck Mallet
