Maria Radutu | Pianobox
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Maria Radutu | Pianobox

With well-known or rarely played piano works in search of emotion in the music, Maria Radutu picks up the audience in her interactive PianoBox format and turns the evening into an experience through charm, sensitivity and a wealth of facets.

“My new PianoBox programme focuses on 5 elements that bring music to life. Freedom in improvisation, breathtaking pauses, melody or harmony, the power and the most diverse colours form the 5 elements to jump between styles and epochs in the usual way, out of conviction that the emotion lies not in the musical language or origin, but in the depth.”

Maria Radutu, known for her boldly designed albums and interdisciplinary projects, finds in her PianoBox the most flexible framework to convey piano literature that inspires her in an emotional way. For the audience, the connection between theme and programme is revealed through the stories about the music that Radutu freely tells between the works. The boundary between stage and audience disappears, the music remains the star of the evening. The word opens the door to discovering new things in the music.

Intro

David Chaillou – “Les mains nues”

Time

Maria Szymanowska – Polonaise in f minor

Thomas Adès – Mazurka

Melody versus Harmony

Frederic Chopin – Prelude Op 28. No 4

Thomas Wally – Melody vs. Harmony

Frederic Chopin – Prelude Op. 28 No 20

Rhythm

Marco Annau – Crossing Lines

Louise Talma – Alleluia in form of a Toccata

Colours

Sergei Rachmaninoff – Prelude Op. 32. No. 12 in g sharp minor

Alexander Skrjabin – Prelude Op.11 No.7 A major

Alexander Skrjabin – Prelude Op 11. No. 21 B flat major

Fanny Hensel – September (Das Jahr) in h minor

Strength

Anton Heiller – Toccata 1942

Sergei Prokofjew – Toccata Op.11