FILM CYCLE & CD PRESENTATION / LISTENING EXPERIENCE
Majid Foundation, Ascona
The Ascona Music Festival continues to express its educational vocation with a deep respect and awareness of the growing need to promote and diffuse classical music. In this edition we propose a film cycle and CD presentation / listening experience that will be open to the public with free entrance, in collaboration with the Majid Foundation in Ascona. The cycle features the screening of two great films by the independent producer EuroArts and the presentation and listening experience of the CD of the 2020 edition of the Festival by the label Edelweiss Emission.
Free Entrance
In collaboration with EuroArts and Edelweiss Emission
MURRAY PERAHIA PLAYS BEETHOVEN – PIANO CONCERTOS N. 1 & 2
15th September 2020 at 18.00
Film by EUROARTS
Majid Foundation, Ascona, ASCONA
Murray Perahia, piano
Academy St. Martins in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
Perahia’s Beethoven, with its formal balance, crystalline textures, eloquent phrasing, unfailingly beautiful tone and spacious grasp of large-scale structure, allows us to eavesdrop on the development of a towering genius as he ushers in the birth of an era.
Repertoire: Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 and No. 2
Duration: 68 mins
CLAUDIO ABBADO – SYMPHONY No.9, op. 125 “Choral”
18th September 2020 at 18.00
Majid Foundation, ASCONA
Film di EUROARTS
Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
“With Beethoven, you never stop learning…” …states Claudio Abbado who has constantly reworked the symphonies of the master from Bonn.
Repertoire: Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 op. 125 “Choral”, d Minor
Duration: 69 mins
DANIEL LEVY – BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas (CD)
22nd September 2020 at 18.00
CD PRESENTATION / LISTENING EXPERIENCE
Majid Foundation, ASCONA
Daniel Levy, piano
Piano Sonata No.5 in – Piano Sonata No.8 (Pathétique) –
Piano Sonata No.14 (Moonlight Sonata)
CD by EDELWEISS EMISSION
Daniel Levy’s interpretation conveys the luminous musical beauty of the works and a complete loyalty to the composer’s deepest impulses.
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