Piano recital: Mathias Weber at Elbphilharmonie

About the Event

For an extraordinary evening of piano classics, visit the impressive Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg to hear the masterpieces of Bach, Schumann, Chopin, Ravel and Liszt.

FROM THE IDEA OF DANCE
The phenomenon of movement is one of the basic elements of music. It manifests itself in the most diverse forms. An essential manifestation is dance and thus rhythm. There are changing relationships between this and the other basic musical elements, of which melody and harmony are representative. From this field of tension, a multitude of the greatest musical works of art could be created. The horizon extends from the miniature of a mazurka to the large‐scale form of the Baroque, the suite, from the carnival swing to the melancholy waltz to the effervescent joie de vivre of a tarantella. Dance music, which is music for everyday use, is elevated here to a musically autonomous work of art. In the pieces selected for this purpose, the idea of dance comes alive in us.

With his clear, unpretentious and analytical playing, the pianist, music teacher and sound researcher on historical Érard grand pianos Mathias Weber lends impressive contours to the pieces he performs. Mathias Weber, who has made a name for himself as an Érard pianist at home and abroad and as artistic director of the Erard Festival, always succeeds in enchanting the listener's ears with his concerts on Érard grand pianos with his deep and at the same time airy playing. Well‐known pieces are transformed into a new kind of listening experience. The magical sound that he is able to elicit from the instrument captures the tonal ideal of the period in which the selected pieces were written. The selected grand piano dates back to 1857.