Performers
Kit Armstrong, Klavier
Programme
György Ligeti
Sostenuto – Misurato – Prestissimo (Musica Ricercata. Elf Stücke für Klavier Nr. 1) (1951–1953)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Contrapunctus I (Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080) (1742 vor/1745 ca.)
Contrapunctus II (Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080) (1742 vor/1745 ca.)
Contrapunctus III (Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080) (1742 vor/1745 ca.)
Contrapunctus IV (Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080) (1742 vor/1745 ca.)
György Ligeti
Mesto. Parlando (Musica Ricercata. Elf Stücke für Klavier Nr. 2) (1951–1953)
Allegro con spirito (Musica Ricercata. Elf Stücke für Klavier Nr. 3) (1951–1953)
Tempo di valse (Musica Ricercata. Elf Stücke für Klavier Nr. 4) (1951–1953)
Frédéric Chopin
Grande valse brillante a-moll op. 34/2 (1831)
Grande valse brillante F-Dur op. 34/3 (1838)
György Ligeti
Rubato lamentoso (Musica Ricercata. Elf Stücke für Klavier Nr. 5) (1951–1953)
Allegro molto capriccioso (Musica Ricercata. Elf Stücke für Klavier Nr. 6) (1951–1953)
Cantabile, molto legato (Musica Ricercata. Elf Stücke für Klavier Nr. 7) (1951–1953)
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Vivace. Energico (Musica Ricercata. Elf Stücke für Klavier Nr. 8) (1951–1953)
Franz Liszt
Teleki László S 205/4 (Historische ungarische Bildnisse) (1885)
Béla Bartók
Elegie op. 8b/2 (1909)
György Ligeti
Adagio mesto (Béla Bartók in memoriam) (Musica Ricercata. Elf Stücke für Klavier Nr. 9) (1951–1953)
Vivace. Capriccioso (Musica Ricercata. Elf Stücke für Klavier Nr. 10) (1951–1953)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Contrapunctus VIII (Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080) (1742 vor/1745 ca.)
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Fantasia cromatica
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Recercar cromaticho post il Credo (Fiori musicali) (1635))
György Ligeti
Andante misurato e tranquillo (Omaggio a Girolamo Frescobaldi) (Musica Ricercata. Elf Stücke für Klavier Nr. 11) (1951–1953)
Der Zauberlehrling. Étude Nr. 10 (Études pour piano, deuxième livre) (1988–1994)
Arc-en-ciel. Étude Nr. 5 (Études pour piano, premier livre) (1985)
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Zugabe:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele BWV 654 (1708–1717/1744–1748)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Eine kleine Gigue G-Dur K 574 (1789)
Note
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung
Subscription series
Klavier im Mozart-Saal
Festival
40. Internationales Musikfest
Links
http://www.kitarmstrong.com
Kit Armstrong is certainly one of the most unusual musicians: born in Los Angeles in 1992, the pianist and organist was already remarkably interested in both music and science as a child. His abilities in both fields predestine him to take on such complex artistic tasks as he has set himself for his upcoming recital: He contrasts Bach's "Art of the Fugue" with, among others, the »Musica ricercata« and selected etudes by jubilarian György Ligeti. It goes without saying that Ligeti's dizzyingly fast »Sorcerer's Apprentice« should not be missing.