Tickets
$15 to $40
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Nicolas Namoradze in Recital
Sunday 10 February 2019
7:30 pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
The performances of Nicolas Namoradze, pianist and composer, have been hailed by critics as “sparkling … sensitive and coloristic” (New York Times) and “simply gorgeous” (Wall Street Journal).
In this Azrieli Debut Series recital, Nicolas Namoradze presents a number of fascinating cross-temporal musical relationships. The program opens with a pairing of Alexander Scriabin’s demonic “Black Mass” Sonata and J. S. Bach’s F minor Sinfonia, highlighting features in the work of one composer typically associated with the other—in this case, the intricate polyphony of the textures in Scriabin’s Sonata and the audacious chromaticism in Bach’s brief Sinfonia. The Sinfonia also serves as a bridge from the Scriabin Sonata to another large-scale work, Bach’s magisterial Partita in E minor.
The second half of the program juxtaposes a work from Robert Schumann’s prime with one of his very last pieces. While the Arabeske is among Schumann’s most gentle and delicate works, the rarely-performed Gesänge der Frühe (Songs of Dawn) is one of his most audacious and experimental, with compositional procedures and a harmonic palette that foreshadow the music of later decades. This is followed by the world premiere of Namoradze’s own Arabesque—a piece modelled on Schumann’s work of the same name—before the program concludes emphatically with three of his virtuosic Etudes, pieces that John Corigliano has called “some of the most innovative and dynamic works of this century.”
Nicolas Namoradze piano
PROGRAM
Scriabin
Sonata No. 9 Op. 68 “Black Mass”
Bach
Sinfonia in F minor BWV 795
Partita in E minor BWV 830
Schumann
Arabeske Op. 18
Gesänge der Frühe Op. 133
Namoradze
Arabesque (2018)*
Etudes I-III (2015-2017)
*World Premiere
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Travel Dates
3 to 17 February 2019
Park Central Hotel New York
Room Rates
$129 USD Classic King
$149 USD Classic Two Double
Travel Dates
9 to 11 February 2019 *must book by 17 January 2019