Klavierabend Anton Gerzenberg

Performers:

Anton Gerzenberg, piano

Key pianistic experiences
For some, legendary recordings are key experiences on the path to their own career. Anton Gerzenberg had the privilege of hearing one of the best pianists as a child, and not from a loudspeaker, but from the next room. His mother, Lilya Zilberstein, was a regular guest of Martha Argerich. Both he and his brother Daniel became pianists and founded the Gerzenberg Duo. All four performed together at the Wiener Konzerthaus in 2024.

Weightless piano music
Anton Gerzenberg became interested in contemporary piano music early on, which is why he studied with Pierre-Laurent Aimard. He is enthusiastic about pieces that you first have to work your way through and that free themselves from anything physical.

From Debussy to Boulez
He is now giving a piano recital with a sophisticated programme that ranges from Debussy to Stravinsky and Szymanowski to Boulez. The programme begins with a piece that was premiered in the Vienna Konzerthaus a good hundred years ago: Schönberg's Suite for Piano op. 25, an epochal composition that went down in history as the first completely twelve-tone work. The second half of the concert is also dominated by weightless works, with Debussy's »Six épigraphes antiques« and Stravinsky's homage to the impressionist composer. The furious second piano sonata by Boulez, whose 100th birthday is in 2025 and who is in the tradition of the other composers of the evening, will be heard at the end.

programa

Arnold Schönberg
Suite op. 25 (1921)
Pierre Boulez
Incises (1993–2001)
Karol Szymanowski
Maski »Masken«. Drei Stücke op. 34 für Klavier (1916)

Claude Debussy
Six épigraphes antiques (Fassung für Klavier zu zwei Händen) (1915)
Igor Strawinski
Fragment des Symphonies pour instruments à vent à la mémoire de C. A. Debussy (1920)
Pierre Boulez
Sonate Nr. 2 für Klavier (1946–1948)

Lugar

La Casa de conciertos de Viena (en alemán, Wiener Konzerthaus) es una sala de conciertos situada en el centro de la ciudad de Viena (Austria). Fue construida entre 1911 y 1913 según un proyecto de los arquitectos Ferdinand Fellner y Hermann Helmer. Para la inauguración, el 19 de octubre de 1913, Richard Strauss compuso su Preludio festivo (Festliches Präludium) Op 61, para órgano y orquesta.

Actualmente dispone de cuatro salas para diferentes tipos de espectáculos:

La Gran Sala (Großer Saal) con 1.865 plazas.
La Mozart-Saal, con 704 plazas.
La Schubert-Saal, con 366 plazas
La Berio-Saal ha sido añadida durante las ultimas reformas del edificio, y tiene capacidad para unas 400 personas.

El Konzerthaus es la sede de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Viena, de la Orquesta de cámara de Viena, de la Wiener Singakademie y del Klangforum Wien. Diversos ciclos de conciertos albergan a diferentes orquestas invitadas, particularmente la Orquesta Filarmónica de Viena.