RFO with Karina Canellakis - Photo: Eduardus Lee

Karina Canellakis and Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Programme

  • Yannis Kyriakides One hundred years
  • Maurice Ravel Piano Concerto in G
  • Igor Stravinsky Agon

Please note! There are two concerts: at 1 pm and at 3.15pm



Karina Canellakis and Pierre-Laurent Aimard.



Karina Canellakis and Pierre-Laurent Aimard perform Bartók's Third Piano Concerto, alongside a new work by Yannis Kyriakides and Stravinsky's intriguing ballet Agon.



Stravinsky's style experiment Agon

With The Firebird, Petrushka and Le sacre du printemps, Igor Stravinsky proved himself as a ballet composer early on in his career. But he kept searching for new possibilities within the genre. The differences between Les noces, Pulcinella, Le baiser de la fée and Orpheus already seem huge. In the 1950s, the Russian, who had emigrated to America, made Agon in collaboration with the choreographer George Balanchine. It was a very daring stylistic experiment: tonality, chromaticism and elements of Webern's twelve-tone technique, modern ballet, canons and even Renaissance 'bransles' come together. And the music continues to dance throughout all fifteen minuscule particles.



Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays Bartók

If you leaf along in the notes of Béla Bartók's reasonably romantic-classical Third Piano Concerto, you almost lose your way in the extremely slow movement, Andante religioso, in which every note is essential. In an undoubtedly exciting new work, the Cypriot-Dutch Yannis Kyriakides - he will receive the prestigious Johan Wagenaar Prize from the Municipality of The Hague on 12 December - mixes the voices of Silbersee with those of Karina Canellakis' Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and electronics.

Date:
Saturday 19 September 2020
Time:
13:00 hours
Intermission:
No
Location:
The Royal Concertgebouw

Amsterdam
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Large Hall

Performers

Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
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Karina Canellakis
Conductor
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Silbersee Foundation
Ensemble
Kirill Gerstein2 - photo Marco Borggreve
Kirill Gerstein
Piano

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