Event Concerts and Performances Marc-André Hamelin, piano
Date and Location
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When: Friday, April 26, 2024
8:00 pm - 10:30 pm EDT
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Where: Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium (LJG45A)
10 1st Street SE, Washington, DC 20540
Part of Concerts from the Library of Congress
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Canadian super-virtuoso Marc-André Hamelin takes on a program of some of the repertoire’s most demanding music. His recorded output is staggering, with over 70 albums to date, full of repertoire that his advocacy helped bring to light, and garnering 11 Grammy nominations. His program at the Library will include two works that are rarely if ever heard on the same program: Charles Ives’ monumental “Concord” sonata, and Maurice Ravel’s devilishly difficult Gaspard de la nuit. Rounding it off are the beautiful forest scenes by Robert Schumann, and a new work of his own commissioned by the Library of Congress in celebration of 100 years of concerts.
Pre-concert Lecture: “He came, he saw, he Concord: Technique and Texture in Ives and Ravel”
David Plylar, PhD, Music Division
Post-concert Nightcap Conversation with the Artist: Onstage, Coolidge Auditorium.
Schedule
Program
MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN
New Work (Commissioned by the Library of Congress)
CHARLES IVES
Sonata no. 2 for Piano: Concord, Mass., 1840-60
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Waldscenen, op. 82
MAURICE RAVEL
Gaspard de la nuit