ALTE OPER

The journey continues!

Like a wonderful voice that gains in beauty, clarity, and radiance with every concert, our 353018 reveals new colors, shades, and moods of its sheer boundless tonal variety to a captivated audience with every performance.

Just a few weeks after a magnificent concert of “Op. 615313” with the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Hessischer Rundfunk in the Great Hall, its older twin brother, Op. 353018, played a piano recital in the Mozart Hall of the Alte Oper Frankfurt.

In addition to Beethoven, Schoenberg, Schubert, and Kurtág, music by Robert Schumann was included in the program for the first time in the context of the piano duo project.

Schumann's Gesänge der Frühe (Songs of Dawn), Op. 133, composed in October 1853, are not only an important musical work by the composer, but also a profound testimony to Schumann's inner experience and his exploration of the great themes of life, death, and nature, just a few months before his suicide attempt in February 1854.

And the perfect instrument for the very special mood of this piano cycle, which oscillates between melancholy and optimism, between farewell and return, was Op. 353018 with its sheer endless richness of color and boundless depth of tonal expression. Goosebumps!