THIBAUDET PLAYS LISZT

February 3-4, 2023 | Music Hall

Louis Langrée leads works that employ a fusion of styles and Thibaudet returns.

Program

QIGANG CHEN: The Five Elements

FRANZ LISZT: Piano Concerto No. 2

ZHOU TIAN: The Palace of Nine Perfections

MAURICE RAVEL: Rapsodie espagnole

Artists

Louis Langrée, conductor

Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

Venue

Music Hall

Series

Series 1

What's Interesting

Louis Langrée leads works inspired by a fusion of cultures. Qigang Chen and GRAMMY-nominated Chinese-American composer Zhou Tian discover new sounds through the combination of Eastern and Western styles. Ravel, who cherished Liszt’s music, pulls from his Basque heritage for Rapsodie espagnole. French Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, celebrated for playing with “both clarity and freedom” (The New York Times), returns for Liszt’s jubilant Second Concerto.

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What Critics Are Saying:

"Mr. Thibaudet played with sophistication and suavity.”
—The New York Times

"[Chen's] compositions display real inventiveness, very great talent and a total assimilation of Chinese thinking to European musical concepts."
—Olivier Messiaen

“It made for one of the most creative…concerts heard at Music Hall this season. Zhou’s [Trace]…opened the concert on a lush, neo-impressionistic note. The work recalls a vanished China, one replaced by industrialization…A playful, folk-like tune inserted toward the end sealed it with nostalgia.”
—The Cincinnati Enquirer