Music in NYC: Jeremy Denk and Friends at Carnegie Hall

Mozart inspired program featuring exhilarating music for piano and violin at Zankel Hall on Sunday, December 16, 2018 at 3 pm

American piano virtuoso Jeremy Denk doesn’t need an elaborate introduction as his lyrical and exacting style and an exquisite taste in program selection earned him high accolades from the critics and a faithful following by the fans. His genuine performing style calls for an equally well-attuned play by his partners on stage. So it is not surprising that for this Carnegie Hall appearance Denk invited his friends the violinists who can match in virtuosity when playing “mature” Mozart sonatas for piano and violin together with the music by Handel, Ravel, Stravinsky, Adams and others.

Mozart, who was known for his brilliant command of the piano and the violin, had written the sonatas included in this program when he was still employed in Salzburg.  While the sonatas from his early period have the violin in the lead, the more mature pieces call for an even-handed treatment of the instruments. The intertwined parts of the scores don’t delineate for a solo and an accompaniment role but create a wholesome arrangement. That is the main idea behind this carefully curated musical holiday present to every music lover.

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Well known for his elevating interpretation of each piece he plays the LATimes review suggests “to mentally add the words, “relatively speaking” every time Denk announces that he is going to play a “conventional program”. That reputation is there to stay for a program on this Sunday afternoon when Mozart and Handel are paired with Ravel, Stravinsky all the way to John Adams. Denk’s audacity to make the audience see new sides of the musical repertoire is unbounded and enlightening.

In addition to his growing international fame as a pianist, Denk is renown for his vivid writing. His essays appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books among many other publications. Graduated from Oberlin College, Indiana University and Julliard School, he tours extensively around the world, served as music director and even wrote a libretto for a comic opera.

This season he will also perform at Carnegie Hall on February, 1  with a solo piano recital.

Mozart Reflected: Violin Sonatas with Interludes in Three Acts

The program calls for serious and similarly deep stylistic approach from the violinists. So the friends with violins in hands invited to take part in the Sunday recital aspire to match the pianist with an equivalent degree of brilliance. Benjamin Bellman, Pamela Frank, Stefan Jackiw will play with Denk in this thought-provoking program in three acts with two 20 minutes intermissions.

December 16, 2018 Program:

SCHUBERT Allegro from Violin Sonata in A Minor, D. 385

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