What does it mean to not only play pieces on the piano, but to enter sound spaces and take others with you? The young pianist Wataru Hisasue manages to do just that: with poetic depth, technical clarity and a fine sense of dramaturgy, he leads us through a program that combines sound, myth and emotion and is crowned by one of the absolute masterpieces of literature: Beethoven's "Appassionata".

His solo evening at the Elektra Tonquartier begins with Karol Szymanowski's (1882-1937) Shéhérazade, an impressionistic sound poem full of shimmering colors, inspired by the stories of the Arabian Nights. Music like a dream, seductive, dark, steeped in narrative.

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) follows with three pieces from the Années de pèlerinage - Première année: Suisse: Au bord d'une source, Orage and Vallée d'Obermann. Glittering water, a gathering storm, then a silent monologue about loneliness, longing and one's own existence in the world. Expanse turned into sound.

Pascal Dusapin's (born 1955) Étude No. 2 Igra leads us into the present. The music challenges the audience: rhythmically, sonically, emotionally. It sounds rougher, more searching, more restless - and deliberately sets a counterpoint to the romantic sound language before it.

The finale is Ludwig van Beethoven's (1770-1827) Appassionata. A sonata that is still regarded today as the epitome of passionate expressiveness. Its restlessness, its inner pressure, its will to form unfold with Hisasue with clarity and force. Passion, without pathos. Fervor, without exaggeration.

Wataru Hisasue, born in Kyoto in 1994, now lives in Germany and is at home on Europe's major stages. As a multiple award-winning soloist, including at the ARD Competition and the Concours Géza Anda, he combines precision with depth. He speaks fluently in various tonal languages: between romanticism and the present, between stillness and storm.

A concert evening that feels like an inner journey. From narrative to experience. And perhaps a little further.

Cast:

Wataru Hisasue, piano

Program:

Karol Szymanowski
Masques op. 34
I. Shéhérazade

Franz Liszt
Années de pèlerinage - Première année: Suisse
- Au bord d'une source
- Orage
- Vallée d'Obermann

Pascal Dusapin
Étude No. 2 "Igra"

Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor op. 57 "Appassionata"

Admission 15:30
Start: 16:00
End: 17:15

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