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Aldeburgh Festival - Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Live from Snape Maltings in Suffolk, pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays etudes by Debussy, Chopin, Ligeti, Bartok and Scriabin as part of the 2014 Aldeburgh Festival.

Live from Snape Maltings as part of the Aldeburgh Festival

Presented by Tom Service

Aldeburgh Festival Director Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays a selection of highly virtuosic and pianistic studies by five of the greatest 19th- and 20th-century composers.

Debussy - Etudes (selection)
Ligeti - Etudes (selection)
Chopin - Etudes (selection)

Interval - includes 茅tudes or studies for orchestra by Szymanowski, Stravinsky, Arthur Bliss and Frank Martin.

Bartok - Etudes (selection)
Ligeti - Etudes (selection)
Scriabin - Etudes (selection)

To hear Aldeburgh Festival Artistic Director Pierre-Laurent Aimard perform Ligeti's dazzling 脡tudes is to experience some of the twentieth century's most energising piano music interpreted by one of the composer's closest collaborators. For this concert Aimard takes the audience on a grand kaleidoscopic tour of the 脡tude ('study') genre, from the great Romantic composer-pianists Chopin and Bart贸k to the exploration of sounds and colours in pieces by Debussy and Scriabin.
Earlier studies which on paper seem light-years removed turn out to have surprising connections and resonances with Ligeti's, whose 'high virtuosity' the composer explained to be 'a response to my own inadequate piano technique'.

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Mon 23 Jun 2014 19:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Pierre-Laurent Aimard at Aldeburgh part 1

    • Claude Debussy

      12 Studies for piano - no.1 (Book 1) Pour les cinq doigts d'apres Monsieur Czerny

      Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.

    • Gyorgy Ligeti

      Studies - book 3 for piano (nos. 15- ) no.15 White on white

      Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.

    • Claude Debussy

      12 Studies for piano - no.9 (Book 2) Pour les notes repetees

      Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.

    • Gy枚rgy Ligeti

      Studies - book 2 for piano (nos. 7-14) no.10 Der Zauberlehrling

      Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.

    • Claude Debussy

      12 Studies for piano - no.3 (Book 1) Pour les quartes

      Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.

    • Gy枚rgy Ligeti

      Studies - book 2 for piano (nos. 7-14) - no.8 Fem

      Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.

    • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

      3 Nouvelles etudes Op.posth for piano - no.1 in F minor (Andantino)

      Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.

    • Gy枚rgy Ligeti

      Studies - book 2 for piano (nos. 7-14) - no.11 En suspens

      Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.

    • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

      3 Nouvelles etudes Op.posth for piano - no.2 in A flat major (Allegretto)

      Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.

    • Gy枚rgy Ligeti

      Studies - book 1 for piano (nos. 1-6) - no.5 Arc-en-ciel (Rainbow)

      Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.

    • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

      12 Studies Op.25 for piano - no.2 in F minor

      Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.

    • Gyorgy Ligeti

      Studies - book 1 for piano (nos. 1-6) - no.3 Touches blocquees (Blocked keys)

      Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.

  • Interval music

    • Igor Stravinsky

      4 Studies for orchestra (from 3 Pieces for string quartet and Study for pianola) - no.2 Excentrique

      Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti. Performer: London Symphony Orchestra.

    • Arthur Bliss

      Study, Op. 16, No. 3 (Allegro)

      Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones. Performer: Orchestra of Opera North.

    • Frank Martin

      Etudes for string orchestra - no.2 Premiere etude, pour l'enchainement des traits; no.3 Deuxieme etude, pour le pizzicato

      Conductor: Thierry Fischer. Performer: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

    • Karol Szymanowski

      Study (Op.4`3) in B flat minor, orch. Gzregore Fitelberg (orig piano)

      Conductor: Karol Stryja. Performer: Polish State Philharmonic Orch Katowice.

    • Igor Stravinsky

      4 Studies for orchestra (from 3 Pieces for string quartet and Study for pianola) - no.4 Madrid

      Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti. Performer: London Symphony Orchestra.

  • Pierre-Laurent Aimard at Aldeburgh part 2

    • B茅la Bart贸k

      3 Studies Sz.72, Op.18 for piano

      Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.

    • Gy枚rgy Ligeti

      Studies - book 2 for piano (nos. 7-14) - no.12 Entrelacs

      Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.

    • Gy枚rgy Ligeti

      Studies - book 1 for piano (nos. 1-6) - no.4 Fanfares

      Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.

    • Gy枚rgy Ligeti

      Studies - book 1 for piano (nos. 1-6) - no.6 Automne a Varsovie (Autumn in Warsaw)

      Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.

    • Alexander Scriabin

      3 Studies Op.65 for piano

      Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.

    • Gy枚rgy Ligeti

      Studies - book 2 for piano (nos. 7-14) - no.7 Galamb borong

      Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.

    • Gy枚rgy Ligeti

      Studies - book 1 for piano (nos. 1-6) - no.2; Cordes vides (Empty strings)

      Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.

    • Gy枚rgy Ligeti

      Studies - book 2 for piano (nos. 7-14) - no.13 L' Escalier du diable (The devil's staircase)

      Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.

Broadcast

  • Mon 23 Jun 2014 19:30
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