Beautiful like a storm / Lukas Sternath’s piano recital - NOSPR

Robert Schumann composed his last piano piece communicating with his fears. He claimed that ghosts were playing music that was both most beautiful and repulsing especially for him, revealing their secrets and threatening him with hell. As the artist left us used to his music being interpreted through the lens of his private life, excessive interpretations and negations of this unusual and beautiful cycle of variations’ worth are not uncommon. It is just as “mad” as Franz Liszt’s Sonata in B minor is “sane”, the latter being a striking drama of symphonic breadth, enclosed within a single-movement form, destructive and beautiful like a storm. How will this background work together with a new piece by Patricia Kopatchinskaya, composer known for playing with classics, finding hidden meanings and enlivening concert programmes? Let us learn. 

Adam Suprynowicz 

Concert duration: approximately 80 minutes