Krystian Zimerman's US Tour Program??

[minor9th]

Does anyone know what he is playing on his current US recital tour? I have tickets for his 4/23 concert in Berkeley, but the site doesn't list his program. I hope it's worth $58...

[daniel patschan]

I do not know the program - but since he has been playing almost the same pieces over and over again during the last years in concert (Chopin Sonatas 2 and/or 3 +/- a Chopin Ballad and/or the Barcarolle +/- some additional pieces, which do vary from time to time), it's propably going to be something like that again. This does not mean that he doesn't play well, he reached in fact a kind of perfection. But he seems to be trapped in a his concept of perfection. I hope he will move on someday and do something more risky - he is so extraordinarily gifted.

[minor9th]

Thanks. I guess I can forget about some Sorabji, Xenakis, Ligeti, etc.!

[iumonito]

Thanks. I guess I can forget about some Sorabji, Xenakis, Ligeti, etc.!

Yep, although one of these days you may get some Godowski, and he is IMO the best interpreter of the music of Lutoslawki.

[sonatainfsharp]

I, at one time, had his program for each concert. There are very, very slight changes per each recital, but when I saw him a few months ago, this is what he played:

Pathetique (even though the program said Mozart K.330)
Valse Nolbes (Ravel)
Ballade #4 (Chopin)
Op.24 Mazurkas (Chopin)
Sonata Op.35 (Chopin)

[cjp_piano]

In November of 2005 his program at Miami University was:

Sonata In C Major, K. 330
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

Valse Nobles et Sentimentales
MAURICE RAVEL

Ballade No. 4 in f minor, Op. 52
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN

Mazurkas, Op. 24
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN

Sonata No. 2 in b-flat minor, Op. 35
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN


Tickets were only $16 and $8 for students!  We were really blessed!

[sonatainfsharp]

Were you there, cjp? Do you remember that he started with the Pathetique instead, and he repeated the ENTIRE exposition including the Grave!

[cjp_piano]

Were you there, cjp? Do you remember that he started with the Pathetique instead, and he repeated the ENTIRE exposition including the Grave!

No, unfortunately I wasn't there =(

I had the program because my teacher had emailed it to me encouraging me to go, but I wasn't able to go.

Do you live in the area?

[cherub_rocker1979]

Were you there, cjp? Do you remember that he started with the Pathetique instead, and he repeated the ENTIRE exposition including the Grave!

Whoa, I bet that threw you off!

[minor9th]

In November of 2005 his program at Miami University was:

Sonata In C Major, K. 330
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

Valse Nobles et Sentimentales
MAURICE RAVEL

Ballade No. 4 in f minor, Op. 52
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN

Mazurkas, Op. 24
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN

Sonata No. 2 in b-flat minor, Op. 35
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN


Tickets were only $16 and $8 for students!  We were really blessed!

Thank you. I'm hoping for something more...drammatic, let's say.

[mikey6]

more drammatic thn the Bbmin sonata? 
You guys suck! the only person we get down here is Kovacevich and he really was not that great last time he came.  The time before he played Beethoven 1 and it was rather stunning. (Plus Zimerman is probably my favourite pianist so i'm even more envious!)

[dbrainiak914]

I went to the Miami recital.  Probably the most amazing musical experience I've ever undergone.  Absolutely stunning.  He did the most amazing things with the music, my favorite part strangely was the Pathetique and Funeral March (probably because I have his recodings of most of the others, knew what to expect) ... absolute genius.

And for encore... he was basically like (generalizing) "I wasn't sure which sonata to play, so what the heck, I'll play the third sonata..." and burst into the finale... breathtaking.  And he finished with a C# minor Mazurka, truly haunting.

He talked a bunch after the concert, he is an amazing individual.  Even if he's a little too over-the-top in how he likes his pianos.  (He said, "I'm proud, I can play Chopin, Beethoven, AND Ravel on this piano."  Okay??? haha)

A night I will never forget.

[sonatainfsharp]

I went to the Miami recital.  Probably the most amazing musical experience I've ever undergone.  Absolutely stunning. 

I agree. And it was espeically interesting when he stopped during the second movement of the Path. because the ushers let people in. I liked how he was playing and  looking around the auditorium trying to figure out what was making all the racket.

What side of the aud. were you on? I was in the upper left balcony; he had to shut the keyboard lid so that people wouldn't keep asking for more and more encores. He did like what, 12 encores?

[joeplaysthepiano]

Does anyone know where I can find the schedule for his tour?