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Pierre-Laurent Aimard Solo Recital Part II at 92Y (Site)

Saturday April 4, 2020, 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

$53.00

Pierre-Laurent Aimard returns with a program typical of his boundless thoughtfulness.

Each work on the program combines two elements of formal musical style in ways that were revolutionary for their period. Beginning with an “echo” fantasia by the Dutch composer Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, we hear the combination of free-style playing, or “fantasy,” with baroque improvisation. Contemporary English composer George Benjamin’s enigmatic work Shadowlines, a piece written for Mr. Aimard, combines strict canonic form with more improvisatory preludes; Beethoven’s A-Major sonata, Op. 101, likewise makes use of canonic writing. Following intermission, Alban Berg’s Piano Sonata, perhaps the last great Romantic piece written for piano, hews to sonata form while displaying contrapuntal elements. Finally, Beethoven’s penultimate piano sonata, Op. 110 in A-flat Major, embodies sonata form and culminates in a stirring fugue.

Program
Sweelinck Echo Fantasia à 4 in Dorian mode, SwWV 260
George Benjamin Shadowlines
Beethoven Piano Sonata in A Major, Op. 101
Berg Piano Sonata, Op. 1
Beethoven Piano Sonata in A-flat Major, Op. 110

Details

Date:
Saturday April 4, 2020
Time:
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Cost:
$53.00
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Website:
https://www.92y.org/event/pierre-laurent-aimard-piano-ii

Venue

92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Ave
New York, NY 10128 United States
Website:
https://www.92y.org/rentals/venues/all-venues