Who knows the old stories? "I heard Martha Argerich, but nobody knew her then!" or "I was there when the Beatles played to just a handful of people at the Indra in Hamburg!" And who doesn't think a little enviously: Man, I would have loved to have been there!
With the Steinway Prizewinner Concerts, you can do just that! Experience the best pianists of their generation, the recent winners of the major international piano competitions, up close and personal. And with programs that they have put together themselves and therefore have a very personal character.
In this concert you will experience Seth Schultheis from the USA. A few months ago, he brilliantly won the Telekom Beethoven Competition 2025 in Bonn, including a special prize in the chamber music category. He has put together a program especially for the Bergson.
Timo Andres will open the afternoon with Fiddlehead (2023), a highly energetic solo piano composition lasting just under five minutes.
The program continues with two pieces from the second book of Claude Debussy's famous "Préludes", written between 1911 and 1912 - music that evokes images and can paint atmospheres of "footsteps in the snow" and "hills near Capri". Debussy's Préludes are considered a milestone of impressionism at the piano: they break away from traditional tonalities and open up spaces full of colorful sounds and surprising effects.
Another giant of piano literature enters the stage with Ludwig van Beethoven: his Six Variations for Piano, Op. 34. These elaborate variations show Beethoven's inexhaustible inventiveness in transforming a simple theme into completely different moods and figures - a play with form, character and virtuosity.
Leoš Janáček then shows us a mysterious, melancholy tonal language with "In the Mists" and plays with the manifold expressive possibilities of tonal poetry.
The emotional and technical highlight of the evening is Robert Schumann's "Symphonic Etudes", Op. 13 - a work that is far more than mere finger studies. The 1837 version combines passionate virtuosity with deep romantic expression and is considered one of his most important piano works ever.
Timo Andres: Fiddlehead (2023)
Claude Debussy: Préludes, Book 2, 5-6
Ludwig van Beethoven: Six Variations for Piano, Op. 34
Leoš Janáček: In the Mists
Robert Schumann: Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13
Admission 15:30
Start: 16:00
End: 17:15
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