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Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Pierre-Laurent Aimard: Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden - Saal B
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About the Event
Enjoy famous pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard in the stunning Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.
The French master pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays the two most powerful piano sonatas in music history. The second sonata by the American Charles Ives is something like an answer to Beethoven's fortepiano sonata, even quoting it. In addition, Beethoven's music has a vastness, in the slow movement for instance, which must be called transcendental - and there are then also four American transcendental philosophers that Ives portrays in his sonata.
Program
- Beethoven, Ludwig van Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major, op. 106, “Hammerklavier”
- Ives, Charles Klaviersonate Nr. 2 „Concord, Mass.“
Program is subject to change
Artists
- Aimard, Pierre-Laurent (Soloist) Born in Lyon, France, in 1957, Pierre-Laurent Aimard studied at the Paris Conservatory, where he won four first prizes. As a student of Yvonne Loriod from the age of twelve, he developed a close relationship with the composer Olivier Messiaen and has subsequently become a leading interpreter of his works for piano.
It was as the winner of the Olivier Messiaen International Competition in 1973 that Aimard came to international prominence. Since then, he has played throughout the world under the direction of such conductors as Pierre Boulez, Seiji Ozawa, Zubin Mehta, Charles Dutoit, André Previn, Andrew Davis, and David Robertson. He made his American debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of twenty.
