Portland Piano International: Filippo Gorini
$55 keyboard view, $45 non-keyboard view
- Filippo Gorini, piano
Franz Schubert — Piano Sonata No. 13 in A major, D. 664, Op. 120
Ludwig van Beethoven — Veränderungen über einen Walzer ("33 Variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli"), Op. 120
One of the piano world's rising stars, praised for "brave, original playing" (The Guardian) and performances "exploding with pure joie de vivre" (BBC Music Magazine), Filippo Gorini returns to PPI with a program exploring the vast range of human emotion.
Charting a journey of tragedy and turmoil, Berg's only piano sonata is a work of searing intensity written at the crossroads of romanticism and modernism, while Schubert's bucolic Sonata in A major lyrically evokes the beauty of summer in the Austrian countryside. And in his towering "Diabelli" Variations, Beethoven uses a simple waltz as the springboard for daring feats of musical expression fueled by the composer's boundless imagination.
2 performances:
- Sunday, January 7, 4pm at Portland State University's Lincoln Recital Hall
- Tuesday, January 9, 7:30pm at Reser Center for the Arts in Beaverton