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2nd Vilnius Piano Music Festival

 

Dedicated to the bicentenary of Franz Liszt’s birth and the centenary of Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis’s death

 

Cross Dedications

 

Performers:

YVES HENRY (piano, France)

 

Programme:
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN – Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38, dedicated to Robert Schumann

ROBERT SCHUMANN – Kreisleriana, Op.16, dedicated to Frédéric Chopin
Interval

ROBERT SCHUMANN – Fantasia in C major, Op.17, dedicated to Franz Liszt

FRANZ LISZT – Sonata in B minor, S. 178, dedicated to Robert Schumann

 

Meet the guest of the 2nd Vilnius Piano Music Festival – French pianist Yves Henry. Having studied with the legendary Pierre Sancan and Aldo Ciccolini, the pianist has honed his expertise in authentic performance manner and intricacies of the 19th-century music. Henry has given recitals and appeared with orchestras around the globe – Europe, the USA, China and Japan. He excels in Chopin’s piano music as validated by the outstanding critical reviews on his recording of Chopin’s 24 Preludes. 

 

His recital Cross Dedications features the 19th-century piano compositions, dedications of which reveal charming friendship – Chopin’s Second Ballade dedicated to his friend Schumann, and the latter’s Kreisleriana dedicated to Chopin. Another couple of cross dedications is Schumann’s Fantasy in C major dedicated to Liszt who dedicated his great Sonata in B minor to Schumann.

 

In association with:

 

Part of the VILNIUS PIANO MUSIC FESTIVAL

Ticket prices: 40 30 20

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