Andermatt Music: Rising Stars

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Two great talents from the Lang Lang International Music Foundation demonstrate their impressive skills and play popular works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin and others. About the program: How long do you think you have to practise to be able to play a Chopin waltz fluently? How long do you rehearse Beethoven's piano sonatas until you are ready to play them in concert? How many years of study does it take to master Brahms' "Hungarian Dances"? And how much life experience is necessary for Mendelssohn Bartholdy's "Lieder ohne Worte"? Most piano virtuosos work their whole lives to meet the high demands of the concert business, studying for many semesters at different universities and training in technique and expression. And then there are exceptional talents from the Lang Lang International Music Foundation such as Aidan Zhao and Deva Mira Sperandio, who dare to tackle Chopin and Beethoven at the age of just 13 and 17. They too are already students at various universities with renowned professors and have completed exclusive master classes, dedicating their lives to the piano. Is there something in the playing of such young people that cannot be found in older and (possibly) more mature pianists? A certain fearlessness or impartiality towards difficult works? The youthful joy of playing? The lively sound of extraordinary piano talents who are already very advanced but have not yet been deformed by the music business? Now you can hear for yourself how Aidan Zhao interprets Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's sparkling "Lied ohne Worte" in F sharp minor, which is romantic in every respect, how the thirteen-year-old deals with Ludwig van Beethoven's wit and the surprises in his Piano Sonata No. 6, and how he masters the bitonal and rhythmic challenges of Alberto Ginastera's furious "Danzas Argentinas". Deva Mira Sperandio demonstrates her skills in the virtuoso and nervously chasing runs of the first movement of Frédéric Chopin's Sonata in B flat minor and in the high complexity of Camille Saint-Saëns' "Danse macabre", in whose arrangement for piano her hands replace an entire orchestra. Despite all the talent, musicality and diligence required for the concert-ready presentation of these works, the 17-year-old believes she is still a long way from reaching her goal: "I am sometimes like an observer, looking at the music from different angles, searching for the composer's intentions, questioning the score - in a never-ending search for the impossible perfection." The concert takes place in cooperation with Andermatt Music and Swiss Alps Classics. Program: Works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin and others. Aidan Zhao, Piano Deva Mira Sperandio, Piano Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.