Pierre-Laurent Aimard II

Piano evening: Schönberg / Ives

Pierre-Laurent Aimard – Mann sitzt den Betrachtenden zugewandt vor weißem Hintergrund auf Klavierhocker

Charles Ives’s Concord Sonata is one of the 20th century’s most monumental piano sonatas – a flood of sound that is ludicrously demanding, with three systems of notation instead of the usual two. A challenge – even for an internationally accalimed pianist like Pierre-Laurent Aimard. The sonata makes reference to the American transcendentalist movement, for which the town of Concord was akin to a Weimar of the USA: it was here, in the middle of the 19th century, that writers such as Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne all lived. A concentration of talent that is reminiscent of Vienna in the early days of new music, which was central to the evening’s other featured composer: Arnold Schönberg.

Arnold Schönberg (1874 – 1951)

Three piano pieces op. 11 (1909/10)

Six little piano pieces op. 19 (1911)

Five piano pieces op. 23 (1920/23)

Piano pieces op. 33a/33b (1929/31)

Suite for piano op. 25 (1921 – 1923)

Charles Ives (1874 – 1954)

Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass.

Emerson – Hawthorne – The Alcotts – Thoreau

19:10, Exhibition Foyer

Work introduction

Next date:

• Date Monday, 02/September/2024 20:00
• Venue Philharmonie Berlin
• Address Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße 1, 10785 Berlin-Tiergarten