Aisne. Concert: JS Bach invites himself on November 14

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The Young Talents association invites you to discover the pianist Yiheng Wang, on the occasion of a concert given at the Chapelle de la Madeleine (health pass required), rue Racine in Château-Thierry, in the Aisne, on Sunday November 14 2021 at 5 p.m.

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Yiheng Wang was born in 1996 in ShenYang. He started the piano at 4 years old. At the age of 11 he moved with his family to Tokyo where he continued his piano studies with Yukio Yokoyama at Ueno Gakuen Junior High School.

In 2014, he came to continue his musical studies in Paris. He was taught by Pierre Reach then Judy Chin-Cottet and Romain Descharmes at the CRR in Paris. He is currently studying at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris in the class of Emmanuel Strosser.

Concerto

The Italian Concerto, or Italienisches Konzert, originally titled Concerto nach Italienischem Gusto (Concerto in the Italian Taste, BWV 971), was published in 1735 as the first half of the Clavier-Übung.

It is a concerto in three movements for solo harpsichord with two keyboards by JS Bach. The Italian concerto, as a style, is based on the contrasting roles of two different groups of instruments in an ensemble: Bach imitates this effect, creating a contrast by means of the different keyboards. The Italian Concerto is one of Bach's most famous keyboard pieces and has given rise to a large number of recordings, both for piano and harpsichord.

Robert Schumann was barely thirty years old in 1838-1839 when he met his dear Clara. He decides one day to transcribe his moods by inventing the humorous form. He wrote to Clara: “I sat at my piano all this week, composing, writing, laughing and crying all at the same time, you will find all this nicely depicted in my opus 20, La Grande Humoresque which is already in press. »

Difficult work

Petrouchka, subtitled Scènes burlesques en quatre tableaux, is a ballet whose music was composed by Igor Stravinsky in 1910-1911. Ten years after the creation of the ballet, Arthur Rubinstein, a great pianist at the time and a great friend of Stravinsky, asked the composer to adapt Petrushka for solo piano. Stravinsky accepts, but specifies that it will not be a transcription, but an adaptation.

Indeed, according to him, the piano alone cannot imitate the orchestra. He therefore decided to write a whole new piece based on the melodies and themes of the ballet. With great rhythmic, melodic and harmonic richness, it allows the performers, as Stravinsky wished, to show great virtuosity. It remains one of the most difficult works in the piano repertoire.

The public should be numerous to come and applaud this remarkable young talent in the city of fables.

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