Progetto Martha Argerich

italiano

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Alexis Weissenberg

Sonate en état de jazz

 

Born in Sofia in 1929, Alexis Weissenberg was one of the most acclaimed and beloved pianists of the twentieth century. Cosmopolitan in his upbringing, after having studied with Pancho Wladigeroff in his native country he finished his studies at New York’s Juilliard School under the guidance of Olga Samaroff. This highly precocious musician made his New York debut in 1947 playing Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto, one of the most demanding works in the repertoire, with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of George Szell. Weissenberg, who is currently a French citizen, became popular all over the world thanks to the videos that he made together with Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic. The Sonate en état de jazz, which he composed in 1982, is made up of four movements that present jazz-style versions of four of the most typical examples of twentieth-century popular music: tango, Charleston, blues and samba.

1. Évocaton d’un tango
2. Réminiscence d’un charleston
3. Reflets d’un blues
4. Provocation d’un samba

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