Leif Ove Andsnes & Bertrand Chamayou

A faithful guest of the Dijon Opera, Bertrand Chamayou joins forces this year with Leif Ove Andsnes for a duo of the highest order, dedicated to the boundless imagination of Kurtág and the alchemy of late Schubert.

The word Játékok — meaning “games” or “toys” in Hungarian — was chosen by György Kurtág to designate a vast collection of short pieces, spread across nine volumes, inspired by the spontaneity of children’s play and marked by a spirit of experimentation. Heterogeneous in character, driven by cultural memories or by sheer fantasy, these works formed, over the years, a kind of intimate diary for the composer, as well as a moving testimony to the four-hand piano practice he shared with his wife, Márta Kurtág.

For this recital, Leif Ove Andsnes and Bertrand Chamayou have selected a number of pieces for two or four hands, many of them homages — notably to Schubert, of course. It is to Schubert that the second half of their program is devoted, particularly to his late trilogy of four-hand masterpieces: the Rondo in A major, in which the two pianists trade the principal theme amid charming Intermezzi; the passionate and grand Allegro “Lebensstürme” (“Storms of Life”); and finally, the expansive and illustrious Fantasy in F minor, whose opening melody — imbued with ineffable nostalgia, is arguably one of Schubert’s most beautiful creations.

Pianos Leif Ove Andsnes & Bertrand Chamayou

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Franz Schubert
Rondo en la majeur D. 951

György Kurtág
Játékok : Hommage à Farkas
Ferenc n° 3, Evocation of Petrushka
Les Adieux, op.12, n° 7
Sirens of the Deluge – Waiting for Noah
An Apocryphal Hymn
Játékok : Hommage à Farkas
Ferenc n° 2, Scraps of a colinda melody – Faintly recollected
Furious Chorale
Hommage à Stravinsky – Harangok
Hommage à Halmágyi Mihály

Franz Schubert
Allegro en la mineur, op. 144 D. 947 « Lebensstürme »
Fugue en mi mineur pour piano à quatre mains, op. 152 D. 952

György Kurtág
Játékok : A Voice in the Distance
The Little Squall
Hommage à Franz Schubert
Hommage tardif à Karskaya
Choral (for Benjamin Rajeczky’s 80th birthday)
Játékok : Study to Pilinszky’s « Hölderlin »
Kyrie
Hommage à Soproni –
In memoriam matris carissimae

Franz Schubert
Fantaisie pour piano à quatre mains en fa mineur D. 940

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