Roland Pöntinen, Lilly Zetterberg. Photo: Tina Axelsson
Pianorama – inauguration
Pianorama – a three-day festival with the piano in focus. Tonight: Piano, choreography and dance.
Welcome to a festival featuring piano in the lead role in all concerts. For three days, we will get to hear this instrument solo and together with others. Many of Sweden’s leading pianists will appear, including established musicians and emerging stars, as well as some of Sweden’s most prominent string musicians. Concert pianist Roland Pöntinen is artistic director of Pianorama.
Modern dance began with the dancing of Isadora Duncan, and the legacy of her choreography has been passed down through generations of dancers. One dancer carrying the tradition on is Lilly Zetterberg, who performs dances choreographed by Isadora Duncan between the years of 1904-24. Roland Pöntinen performs music by Frédéric Chopin, Christoph Willibald Gluck and Alexander Scriabin – the same fantastic music that accompanied Isadora Duncan when she danced this choreography herself.
Dance is also the common denominator in the consistently masterful pieces Roland Pöntinen will play after intermission – Scriabin’s Waltz, Opus 38; Franz Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz No. 1; selections from Sergei Prokofiev’s Cinderella and Leonard Pennario’s arrangement of Johann Strauss II’s Emperor Waltz.
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The music
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A Homage to Isadora – The Dances of Isadora Duncan
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Frédéric Chopin Prelude in A major op 28:7 (Choreographed ca. 1904)1 min
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Frédéric Chopin "Twirling Mazurka" in C Major op 33:3 (Choreographed ca. 1902)3 min
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Frédéric Chopin "Harp Etude" in A flat major op 25:1 (Choreograped ca. 1917)2 min
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Frédéric Chopin "Minute Waltz" in D flat major op 64:1 (Choreographed ca. 1900)2 min
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Johannes Brahms "Greeting/Welcome" Waltz in B major op 39:1 (Choreographed ca. 1910-12)1 min
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Johannes Brahms "Lullaby" Waltz in E major op 39:2 (Choreographed ca. 1910-12)1 min
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Johannes Brahms Waltz in g sharp minor op 39:3 (Choreographed ca. 1910-12)1 min
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Johannes Brahms Waltz in d minor for piano op 39:91 min
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Johannes Brahms Waltz in G major for piano op 39:101 min
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Johannes Brahms "Maenod" Waltz in b minor op 39:11 (Choreographed ca. 1910-12)2 min
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Johannes Brahms Waltz in E major for piano op 39:122 min
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Johannes Brahms "Flames of the Heart" Waltz in g sharp minor op 39:14 (Choreographed ca. 1910-12)1 min
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Christoph Willibald von Gluck "Dance of the Blessed Spirits" from Orfeo ed Euridice (Choreographed in 1903) arr Giovanni Sgambati/Roland Pöntinen4 min
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Aleksandr Skryabin "Mother Etude" in c sharp minor op 2:1 (Choreographed in 1921)4 min
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Aleksandr Skryabin "Revolutionary Etude" in d sharp minor op 8:12 (Choreographed in 1921)2 min
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Intermisson20 min
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Aleksandr Skryabin Waltz in A flat major for piano op 386 min
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Franz Liszt Mephisto Waltz No. 1 "The Dance in the Village Inn" for piano11 min
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Sergey Prokofiev Oriental Dance from 10 Pieces for piano from Cinderella2 min
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Sergey Prokofiev Quarrel "The Stepsisters Fights Over a Scarf" from Six Pieces for piano from Cinderella op 1023 min
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Sergey Prokofiev Waltz "Cinderella Goes to the Ball" from Six Pieces for piano from Cinderella op 1023 min
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Sergey Prokofiev Waltz "Cinderella and the Prince" from Six Pieces for piano from Cinderella op 1026 min
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Sergey Prokofiev Amoroso from Six Pieces for piano from Cinderella op 1025 min
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Johann Strauss Jr. Emperor Waltz, version for piano arr Leonard Pennario8 min
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Participants
- Lilly Zetterberg dancer
- Roland Pöntinen piano
- Horace Engdahl compère