Alexandra Dovgan | piano
Young Russian pianist Alexandra Dovgan scales the heights in the company of Schumann and Brahms.
Dates
Schumann Carnaval de Vienne op. 26
Brahms Intermezzo for piano op. 117
Variations & Fugue on a theme by Handel op. 24
About
There is little point in highlighting the precocious talents of pianist Alexandra Dovgan, who was born in 2007, and whom Grigory Sokolov says we should view as a fully-formed musician rather than as a teenage prodigy. Today’s programme should confirm this. It is hard to imagine a greater gulf than between Carnival Scenes from Vienna by Schumann – in which “mischievous mockery and the most playful petulance set sparks flying”, wrote the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung at the time – and the intimate confidences of Opus 117 by Brahms. The variations which Brahms produced in 1851 on a theme from Handel’s Harpsichord Suite No. 1 will round off this morning performance, which we anticipate will be extremely colourful.
Coréalisation Jeanine Roze Production / Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
