GREAT PERFORMERS
Robert Schumann:
– Arabesque, opus 18
– Études symphoniques, opus 13
Frédéric Chopin:
– Barcarolle in f sharp major, opus 60
– Sonata no 3 in b minor, opus 58
Nelson Freire piano
A co-production with
the Aegina International Music Festival (Artistic director: Dora Bakopoulos)
Classical music lovers today unanimously praise the art of Nelson Freire for its transcendence. What motivates such a statement? A remarkable phenomenon: having spent his entire life playing and pondering the great pianistic repertoire, the artist has reached a point of culmination where any work he chooses to interpret nowadays, becomes under his fingers, the most poetic, the most perfect, the most moving version imaginable.
At the age of twenty-three for his London début, he made a sensation and The Times called him “The young lion of the keyboard”. The following year, after his performance with the New York Philharmonic for his New York debut, Time Magazine hailed him as “One of the most exciting pianists of this or any age” .
From then on and for five decades, Nelson Freire has performed in over seventy countries and become a bright star in the international music world.
Nelson Freire has performed with many of the world’s major conductors, such as Valery Gergiev, Yuri Temirkanov, Seiji Osawa, Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Chailly, Charles Dutoit, Eugen Jochum, André Previn, Lorin Maazel, Rudolf Kempe, Rafael Kubelik, David Zinman, Kurt Masur and Sir Colin Davis. He has appeared with the greatest orchestras: the Philharmonics of Berlin, London, New York and Israel, as well with the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Leipzig Gewandhaus and the orchestras of Munich, Paris, Tokyo, St. Petersbourg –including the Mariinsky– Vienna, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Chicago and Montreal.