The Rite of Spring
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Sat 21 Mar 202616:00 - 17:30Excl. drankjeGrote Zaal
1 Normaal € 35,00 CJP € 28,00 Stadspas € 28,00 Early Bird (13-30jr) € 12,50 2 Normaal € 28,00 CJP € 28,00 Stadspas € 28,00 Early Bird (13-30jr) € 12,50
Program
15:00 - 22:15 / Kleine Zaal / Video installation (free walk-in)
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker concept, choreography
Pavel Kolesnikov, Samson Tsoy music
Rosas production
16:00 / Grote Zaal / Main program
Johann Strauss II Frühlingsstimmen for two pianos
Sergej Rachmaninov Romance for piano six hands
Sergej Prokofiev Spring from Cinderella for two pianos
Dmitri Shostakovich Spring Waltz
Alfred Schnittke Homage to Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich for piano six hands
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano sonata in E Major No. 30 Op.109
Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring for four hands
Credits
Pavel Kolesnikov piano
Samson Tsoy piano
Elisabeth Leonskaja piano
The sun shines in the first concert of the Ragged Music Festival, with music for one and two pianos, played by the two, four or six hands of three pianists. Festival programmers Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy perform together with Elisabeth Leonskaja, the grande dame of the great Russian piano tradition. For six hands, they play Sergei Rachmaninoff’s lyrical Romance and Alfred Schnittke’s cheerfully ironic homage to Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich.
Leonskaja presents a solo performance of a poetic sonata from Beethoven’s final years, a work of gentle beauty and lyrical depth. Samson Tsoy and Pavel Kolesnikov conclude the evening with Stravinsky’s Sacre. This primal celebration of spring so ignited the audience at its 1913 premiere that brawls erupted in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, between those who loved and those who loathed the work.
