ConcertPulseLang Lang plays Schumann, Chopin and Fauré
Date & Time
Tue, Nov 12, 2024, 20:00Celebrity pianist Lang Lang opens our piano series with an evening of high romanticism. Frédéric Chopin’s mazurkas are a fascinating combion of folk-dance vigour with virtuosity and a sensitive awareness of sound, and Schumann’s Kreisleriana cycle bubbles over with imagination and emotion. Schumann’s cycle portrayed the composer in eight pieces, which together give – he wrote – a “picture of my character, my endeavours”. To open the concert, Lang Lang plays Gabriel Fauré’s Pavane, which combines romantic sensitivity with archaic baroque references.
Musicians
| Lang Lang | Piano |
Program
| Pavane in F sharp minor, op. 50 | Gabriel Fauré |
| Kreisleriana, op. 16 | Robert Schumann |
| Mazurka in F minor, op. 7 No. 3 | Frédéric Chopin |
| Mazurka in B flat major, op. 17 No. 1 | Frédéric Chopin |
| Mazurka in B flat major, op. 17 No. 2 | Frédéric Chopin |
| Mazurka in B flat major, op. 17 No. 4 | Frédéric Chopin |
| Mazurka in C major, op. 24 No. 2 | Frédéric Chopin |
| Mazurka in C major, op. 24 No. 4 | Frédéric Chopin |
| Mazurka in D flat major, op. 30 No. 3 | Frédéric Chopin |
| Mazurka in D flat major, op. 30 No. 4 | Frédéric Chopin |
| Mazurka in D major, op. 33 No. 2 | Frédéric Chopin |
| Mazurka in D major, op. 33 No. 3 | Frédéric Chopin |
| Mazurka in D major, op. 33 No. 4 | Frédéric Chopin |
| Mazurka in F sharp minor, op. 59 No. 3 | Frédéric Chopin |
| Polonaise in F sharp minor, op. 44 | Frédéric Chopin |
