Music is memory.
Every work in music history is an answer to the previous, and a question for the next.
A conversation beyond death, upon death.
“Two draining, unforgettable soliloquies.”
Los Angeles Times, Mark Swed
“A Whole New Way to Do a Recital”
“What James Joyce did for the novel,
Formenti seems intent on doing for the piano recital.
The results were unforgettable.”
The San Francisco Chronicle, Joshua Kosman
“The Italian pianist shows that you don’t need giant screens,
purple lighting or multi-media bolt-ons
to reinvent the concert experience.”
The Telegraph, London, Ivan Hewett
PROGRAM
FIRST PART ( 50′ ca. )
Guillaume de Machaut, Loyauté, que point ne delay
György Kurtág, Hommage à Farkas Ferenc no. 2
Guillaume de Machaut, Tres douce Dame
György Kurtág, Hommage à Farkas Ferenc no. 4
György Kurtág, Hommage à Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Klavierstück no. 2
György Kurtág, …humble Regard sur Olivier Messiaen…
Olivier Messiaen, Île de Feu 1
György Kurtág, Hommage à Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez, Notation no. 10, no. 12
Modest Musszorgszkij, Catacombs
György Kurtág, Hommage à Musszorgszkij
Modest Musszorgszkij, The First Punishment
György Kurtág, Hommage à J.S.B.
György Kurtág, Hommage à Domenico Scarlatti
György Kurtág, Hommage à Farkas Ferenc no. 3
Domenico Scarlatti, Sonata K 394
György Kurtág, Hempergös (Tumble-Bunny)
György Kurtág, The Five-Finger-Quarrel
J. S. Bach, Praeludium d-moll BWV 875
György Kurtág, Versetto: Temptavit Deus Abraham…
György Kurtág, Consurrexit Cain adversus fratrem suum…
Joseph Haydn, Il Terremoto (The Earthquake)
György Kurtág, Sirens of the Deluge
Domenico Scarlatti, Sonata K 197
György Kurtág, Fugitive Thoughts about the Alberti Bass
György Kurtág, All’ Ongherese
Franz Schubert, Ungarische Melodie D 817
György Ligeti, Musica Ricercata no. 8
Bela Bartók, Hungarian Peasant Song op. 20 no. 2
György Kurtág, Orosc Tánc – Russian Dance
Bela Bartók, Hungarian Peasant Song op. 20 no. 5
L. v. Beethoven, Bagatelle op. 119 no. 10
Bela Bartók, Rumanian Folk Dance no. 6
György Kurtág, Do-Mi D’arab
SECOND PART ( 50′ ca. )
Henry Purcell, Round O
György Kurtág, Tears
György Kurtág, Les Adieux (in Janácek’s manner)
Leos Janácek, On an Overgrown Path, II, 2
György Kurtág, Doina
Franz Schubert, Walzer D 365, no. 22
Anton Webern, Kinderstück
György Kurtág, Studie zu Büchners “Lenz” Hommage à Schubert
György Kurtág, Keringö ( Waltz )
Frederic Chopin, Mazurka op. 41 no. 2
György Kurtág, Hommage à Zenon
György Kurtág, Hommage à Petrovics
Robert Schumann, Kinderszenen: Frightening
György Kurtág, …and once again: Shadow-play
György Kurtág, Agitato
Robert Schumann, Kinderszenen: Blindman’s Buff
György Kurtág, (…and round and round it goes )
György Kurtág, Face to Face
Robert Schumann, Davidsbündlertänze op. 6, no. 8 and 9
György Kurtág, Nyuszicsököny ( Stubbunny )
Robert Schumann, Davidsbündlertänze op. 6, n. 4
György Kurtág, In Memoriam Edison Denisov
György Ligeti, Bela Bartók in Memoriam
György Kurtág, In Memoriam András Mihály
Franz Liszt, La Lugubre Gondola no. 1
György Kurtág, For Marianne Teöke
György Kurtág, In Memoriam Lajos Vass
Franz Liszt, At Richard Wagner’s Grave
György Kurtág, Szunyogh Istvàn in Memoriam
György Kurtág, Marina Tsvetayeva: It’s Time
Robert Schumann, Kinderszenen: The Poet Speaks
György Kurtág, …de már elfelejtettem…
György Kurtág, Lendvai Ernö in Memoriam
György Kurtág, In Memoriam Pál Járdányi
performances @
Lucerne Festival
Lincoln Center New York
Wigmore Hall London
Wiener Konzerthaus
Philharmonie Hamburg
San Francisco Performances
Los Angeles MEC
a.o.
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