Vladivostok, Primorsky Stage, Chamber Hall

Peter Laul recital (piano)


PERFORMERS:
Peter Laul (piano)

PROGRAMME:

Part I

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Piano sonata No 15 in D major, op. 28 (1801)

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
Mazurkas, op. 24 (1834-35)
Scherzo No 2 in B flat minor, op. 31 (1837)

Part II

Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
Suite Pour le piano, L 95 (1894-1901)
Masques, L 105 (1904)
L'Isle Joyeuse, L 106 (1904)

Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Le tombeau de Couperin, M 68 (1914-17)

About the Concert

Peter Laul, a renowned, international prize-winning pianist from St Petersburg, who is equally comfortable playing compositions in all styles and genres. Each of the artist’s compelling performances is a music theatre, exploration and investigation, sometimes being close to a detective story. The original programme of his klavierabend at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre will take the audience on a riveting time travel through the classical and romantic eras into the 20th century, to the impressionism and symbolism of Debussy, culminating the evening with Ravel’s suite – the composer’s homage to the galant 18th century.

The compositions by Chopin represent two poles of romantic music. A necklace of mazurkas, where each miniature is iridescent like facets of a jewel, are an exquisite musical rethinking of the poetry of the folk dance. Famous Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 31 is a long-form piece, which the composer filled with pathos, fantasy, emotional versatility and dramatism.

Debussy’s Cycle Pour le piano is an interesting example of utilization of new techniques within a classical suite, when a piano serves as a means of impressionist tone painting. Although the title of the mystic Masques refers to the traditions of Italian folk theatre, according to the composer: “It is not the Italian comedy, it is the tragic expression of existence” and the circumstances of his personal “theatre of life”. In contrast, written at the same time as Masques, Debussy’s L’isle Joyeuse inspired by Watteau’s painting L’Embarquement de Cythère, is full of light and sounds like a hymn to beauty and happiness.

Maurice Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin is the author’s declaration of love for old Baroque music and works by French clavecinists. Being composed amid the dramatic events of World War II, the cycle reflects the composer’s nostalgia for the wonderful past, the elegant age of rococo and the refined era of “gallant festivities”

Nadezhda Koulygina

Age category 6+

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