Genre: Chamber music

Roland Pöntinen

A richly varied programme with one of Sweden's leading pianists.

Roland Pöntinen is among Sweden’s top pianists. With insightful musicality, he cuts into the essence of the music and always moves equally comfortably through a repertoire spanning from the great classics to newly composed pieces.

He is also famous for his extreme virtuosity, which we will get a sample of at this concert, in one of Franz Liszt’s both musically and technically unparalleled etudes from Etudes d’exécution transcendante. We will hear other sides of Franz Liszt in the dreamy En Rêve and the delicately meditative Wiegenlied, which means lullaby.

Pöntinen begins with Schubert’s majestic Sonata in A-Minor. We will also hear newly composed music by Roland Pöntinen’s brother Stefan and the highly acclaimed Canadian Kati Agóc’s Nostalgia For Airs Unheard, a tribute in memory of the pianist Glenn Gould. In a magnificent conclusion, Pöntinen performs Rachmaninoff’s harmonically exploratory and highly demanding 13 Preludes, Opus 32.

A richly varied programme with one of Sweden's leading pianists.

Sunday 27 January 2019 15.00

Ends approximately 17.10

Price:

210-380 SEK

Roland Pöntinen is among Sweden’s top pianists. With insightful musicality, he cuts into the essence of the music and always moves equally comfortably through a repertoire spanning from the great classics to newly composed pieces.

He is also famous for his extreme virtuosity, which we will get a sample of at this concert, in one of Franz Liszt’s both musically and technically unparalleled etudes from Etudes d’exécution transcendante. We will hear other sides of Franz Liszt in the dreamy En Rêve and the delicately meditative Wiegenlied, which means lullaby.

Pöntinen begins with Schubert’s majestic Sonata in A-Minor. We will also hear newly composed music by Roland Pöntinen’s brother Stefan and the highly acclaimed Canadian Kati Agóc’s Nostalgia For Airs Unheard, a tribute in memory of the pianist Glenn Gould. In a magnificent conclusion, Pöntinen performs Rachmaninoff’s harmonically exploratory and highly demanding 13 Preludes, Opus 32.

  • The music

    Approximate times
  • Franz Schubert Piano Sonata in a minor D 784
    18 min
  • Kati Agócs Nostalgia for Airs Unheard for piano
    6 min
  • Stefan Pöntinen Sacromonte for piano
    5 min
  • Franz Liszt Wiegenlied ”Chant du berceau” for piano
    4 min
  • Franz Liszt Etude No. 10 in f minor from Etudes d’exécution transcendante for piano
    4 min
  • Franz Liszt En rêve for piano
    3 min
  • Franz Liszt Miserere du Trovatore for piano
    8 min
  • Intermission
    25 min
  • Sergej Rachmaninov 13 Preludes for piano op 32
    42 min
  • Encore:
  • Frédéric Chopin Mazurka in a minor for piano op 17:4
    4 min
  • Participants

  • Roland Pöntinen piano

Sunday 27 January 2019 15.00

Ends approximately 17.10

Price:

210-380 SEK