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
