IGOR LEVIT

PIANO
JANUARY 10, 2018

D E N V E R
JOHANN Chaconne in D minor (from Partita for violin solo),
BWV 1004
S E BA S T I A N BAC H
(1685-1750) (arr. J. Brahms)
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Gigue
Chaconne

DMITRI Preludes and Fugues for Piano, Op. 87 (selections)
S H O S TA KOV I C H C Minor
(1906-1975) A-flat Major
F Minor
A Major
G-sharp Minor

RO B E R T Theme and Variations in E-flat Major, WoO 24
SCHUMANN (Ghost Variations)
(1810-1856) Theme
Variation I
Variation II
Variation III
Variation IV
Variation V

I N T E R M I S S I O N
R I C H A R D WAG N E R Solemn March to the Holy Grail from Parsifal
(1813-1883) (arr. F. Liszt)

FRANZ LISZT Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale “Ad nos, ad

(1811-1886) salutarem undam”
(arr. F. Busoni)
Fantasy
Adagio
Fugue
IGO R LE V I T IGOR LEVIT, PIANO
Piano
Winner of Gramophone’s “Recording of the Year 2016”
award, Igor Levit has established himself as “one of the
essential artists of his generation” (The New York Times).

The 2017-18 season marks highly-anticipated debuts

including performances with the Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra ( Jakub Hruº ša), the Royal Stockholm
Philharmonic Orchestra (Sakari Oramo), the Vienna and
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras (both with Manfred
Honeck) and reunites him – amongst others – with the
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and the Tonhalle
Orchestra Zurich (Lionel Bringuier). Summer 2017
highlights included a performance at the opening night of
the prestigious BBC Proms alongside the BBC Symphony
Orchestra under the baton of Ed Gardner, Levit’s debut at
the Salzburg Festival, and a residency at Germany’s Rheingau
Musik Festival before he embarked on a tour of Asia with the
Bavarian State Orchestra under Kirill Petrenko.

Recital performances will see him return to his hometown

to play at the Berlin Philharmonie as well as making
debuts in Stockholm and Barcelona. After the immense
success of his Beethoven sonata cycle at London’s Wigmore
Hall in 2016-17, he will take the cycle to Munich’s
Prinzregententheater and continue the cycle started at the
Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels in the previous season.
Highlights of past seasons included orchestral debuts
with the Bavarian State Orchestra (Kirill Petrenko),
Berliner Philharmoniker (Riccardo Chailly), Staatskapelle
Dresden (Christian Thielemann), Cleveland Orchestra
(Franz Welser-Möst), and London Symphony Orchestra
(Fabio Luisi). Recital appearances of 2016 – 17 saw
debuts at Carnegie Hall, Chicago’s Symphony Center,
Boston’s Celebrity Series, at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw,
with Lisbon’s Gulbenkian Foundation, at Hamburg’s
Elbphilharmonie, and the Lucerne Piano Festival.

An exclusive recording artist for Sony Classical, Igor Levit’s

debut disc of the five last Beethoven Sonatas won the BBC
Music Magazine Newcomer of the Year 2014 Award, the
Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artist Award 2014, and
the ECHO Klassik 2014 for Solo Recording of the Year (19th
Century Music/Piano). In October 2015, Sony Classical
released Igor Levit’s third solo album in cooperation with
the Festival Heidelberger Frühling featuring Bach’s Goldberg
Variations, Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, and Rzewski’s The
People United Will Never Be Defeated!, which has been awarded
the “Recording of the Year” and “Instrumental Award” at the
2016 Gramophone Classical Music Awards.

Born in Nizhni Novgorod in 1987, Igor Levit moved with

his family to Germany at the age of eight. He completed
his piano studies at Hannover Academy of Music, Theatre
and Media in 2009 with the highest academic and
performance scores in the history of the institute. Igor Levit
has studied under the tutelage of Karl-Heinz Kämmerling,
Matti Raekallio, Bernd Goetze, Lajos Rovatkay, and Hans
Leygraf. As the youngest participant in the 2005 Arthur
Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv, Igor Levit won the
Silver Prize, as well as the Prize for Best Performer of
Chamber Music, the Audience Favorite Prize, and the Prize
for Best Performer of Contemporary Music.

In Berlin, where he makes his home, Igor Levit plays on

a Steinway D Grand Piano kindly given to him by the
Trustees of Independent Opera at Sadler’s Wells.

Igor Levit is an exclusive recording artist of Sony Classical.

World Management: IMG Artists, LLC, New York City.
Exclusive Manager: Kristin Schuster.
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 NOTES
Program Notes © Elizabeth Bergman

BACH Johannes Brahms routinely looked back in time to

(ARR. BRAHMS): Beethoven, Haydn, and Bach for inspiration. For a brief time
early in his career, during the winters from 1857 to 1860, he
CHACONNE IN
held a position as a court composer in Detmold, and there
D MINOR (FROM imagined himself living in the Enlightenment era, the 18th
PARTITA FOR VIOLIN century, instead of his own, turbulent “Romantic” era.
SOLO), BWV 1004
Later in his career, when he was fashioning his Second
Symphony, he came across a little-known but astonishing
composition by Bach, a chaconne for solo violin (taken
from the Partita No. 2 in D minor), which violinists like
Joshua Bell consider to be among the greatest scores in their
repertoire. Brahms discovered Bach’s score seemingly by
chance, and reacted with wonder: “On one stave, for a small
instrument, this person [Bach] writes a whole world of the
deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined
that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite
certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering
experience would have driven me out of my mind.”

He wrote this arrangement of Bach’s Chaconne for left-hand

only in 1877. Brahms chose to write only for the left-hand
because he could then capture both the sound of the original
work for violin and its challenges for the violinist in realizing
the melody, stately rhythm, and chords. The chaconne,
which evolved from a court dance, moves slowly at a rate
of three pulses per measure and features variations woven
around a repeated bass figure. This is difficult for a violinist
to perform alone, and no less challenging for a pianist using
only the left-hand.

It has been speculated that Brahms intended this

arrangement to be performed by Clara Schumann,
with whom he developed an intense, perhaps romantic
relationship before and after the death of her husband,
Robert Schumann. Clara loved the piece: “You alone could
Last performed on our series have accomplished such a thing,” she wrote, “and however
March 17, 2010, Arnaldo you came to think of it, it amazes me.”
Cohen, piano
Estimated duration: 16 minutes
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Dmitri Shostakovich’s cycle of 24 Preludes and Fugues dates SHOSTAKOVICH: 
from 1950-51, and seems to have been composed quickly in PRELUDES AND
honor of the bicentennial of Johann Sebastian Bach. Their
FUGUES FOR
dedicatee, pianist Tatiana Nikolayeva, premiered the set in
December 1952. Shostakovich’s obvious model for the set was PIANO, OP. 87
Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, but he also derived inspiration (SELECTIONS)
from Chopin’s 24 Preludes (circa 1839) and his own earlier set
of 24 Preludes (1932-33). Each of these works covers all of the
major and minor keys, but their allegiance to those keys varies.
Bach was strictly tonal; Chopin romantically extended tonali-
ty; and Shostakovich modernistically estranged it.

His Preludes and Fugues are personal, rather than political,

bearing the imprint of his eclectic personality. Some of the
preludes and fugues evoke jazz, others recall opera arias, and
still others change mood from calm and tranquil to bitingly
acerbic—permitting dissonance, jaggedness. The opening of
the set is a chorale. The final fugue, as the culmination of the
set, assumes monumental contours. There is some humor and
some harder-to-detect allusions to Beethoven, Liszt, Busoni,
and Reger.

Critics have also heard archaic folk song allusions in the Pre-
ludes and Fugues, and the intonations of Jewish music. Look-
ing at the music and listening to it can be confounding. Some
pages in the score look like old-fashioned counterpoint exer-
cises. But the music leaps off of the page.Lines move out of
sync with each other, the tempo accelerates aggressively, and
the rough edges are exposed. There is no plot here, though
listeners are invited to listen for one; rather, the Preludes
and Fugues seem to be engaging with music history, and the
ability of abstract, as opposed to narrative music, to express
feeling and thought. Bach the divine confronts Shostakovich
the all-too-human. Tonight marks the first
performance of this work
Estimated duration: 25 minutes on our series.

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Program Notes
Continued

R. SCHUMANN:  Composer and critic Robert Schumann began his career as

THEME AND a pianist, but his ambitions came to an end in 1832 when
he injured his right hand by over-practice with the aid of a
VARIATIONS IN
mechanical device meant to separate the middle and ring
E-FLAT MAJOR, fingers. Such, at least, is the legend, and it inspired no end of
WOO 24 (GHOST horror stories about musicians losing the use of their hands.
VARIATIONS) Another explanation has it that Schumann’s weakened
fingers stemmed from mercury poisoning (mercury being
used in his time as a treatment for syphilis). The poisoning
affected his brain and led to, or exacerbated, the illness that
brought his life to a premature end in 1857.

The “Ghost Variations” (Theme with Variations in E-flat

Major for Piano) was the last work he composed before his
hospitalization. Clara Schumann recalls that, at the nadir,
“Schumann thought he was surrounded by ghosts who
sometimes offered him ‘wonderful,’ partly ‘terrible’ music,
which promised him ‘most glorious revelations,’ but also
threatened him with ‘throwing him to hell’.” In the midst
of writing the variations Schumann attempted suicide.
After his rescue and return to Clara’s care he resumed
composing, filling the music with emotions, the eloquent
pronouncements, of composers of his past. He dedicated
the five variations to Clara.

The theme presents lovely, simple chords in the right

hand above simple octaves below. Although the texture
is nearly transparent, the harmonies are rich. The first
four variations repeat this theme nearly unchanged; the
variations concern mostly the accompaniment and texture.
In the first variation, for example, busy triplets enliven the
inner voices; the third variation finds the theme in the left
hand with delicate triplets now floating above. The fourth
variation is a study in dynamics, with frequent, short
crescendos and decrescendos that seem like an attempt to
resuscitate the theme, to breathe new life into the melody
now accompanied by strangely immovable harmonies. The
Tonight marks the first theme nearly disappears in the final variation—a ghost of
performance of this work on its former musical self.
our series.
Estimated duration: 11 minutes
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Unlike Brahms, Schumann, and Shostakovich, Franz WAGNER
Liszt specialized in appropriating music to his own ends. (ARR. LISZT): 
He composed original works, but the creative act often
SOLEMN MARCH
took the form of re-imagining existing music. He was as
much an original composer as a transcriber, creating some TO THE HOLY GRAIL
375 arrangements, for two and four hands, of popular FROM PARSIFAL
opera arias, symphonies, and pieces for solo violin. Why
he devoted so much time and energy to this phenomenon
has long puzzled even his most devoted fans, but context
provides an explanation. With his transcriptions, Liszt
expanded the repertoire available for amateur and profes-
sional pianists. At the same time, Liszt used transcriptions
to enrich and expand piano techniques as new instruments
were being introduced to the market.

His “Solemn March to the Holy Grail” from Wagner’s

final opera, Parsifal, takes on another purpose: that of a
musical souvenir. He made it shortly after attending the
1882 Bayreuth premiere of Parsifal. The arrangement pre-
serves some of the more striking instrumental moments
from Wagner’s monumental score, comprising fragments
from the orchestral interlude of Act I, a “bell ostinato,” and
music assigned by Wagner to an offstage choir. The source
march is expanded from four to eight minutes, a march
recalled in a dream. Tonight marks the first
performance of this work on
Estimated duration: 10 minutes our series.

Liszt’s transcriptions are just as virtuosic as were his con- LISZT (ARR. BUSONI): 
cert recitals. He challenged other composers to match his
feats, and one of them, Ferruccio Busoni, accepted the
FANTASY AND
challenge. In 1850, Liszt composed a Fantasy and Fugue FUGUE ON THE
on the chorale “Ad nos, ad salutarem undam,” a summons CHORALE “AD NOS,
to repentance taken from Giacomo Meyerbeer’s opera AD SALUTAREM
The Prophet. The chorale is monumental, the transcription
UNDAM"
transcendent, and the 1897 re-transcription, by Busoni, has
been described as the ultimate in 19th (and 20th) century
virtuosity. Tonight marks the first
performance of this work on
Estimated duration: 30 minutes our series.

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 MUSIC IN THE GALLERIES!
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with Friends of Chamber Music and Swallow Hill Music
to offer a new way to encounter the work of Clyfford Still.
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Ivy Street Ensemble

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JANUARY 14, 2018, 2:00 – 3:00 PM

Ivy Street Ensemble

Comprised of three Colorado Symphony musicians, Cathy

Peterson, Erik Peterson, and Phillip Stevens, the ensemble
will perform a diverse program, including works by Fritz
Kreisler, Henri Vieuxtemps, Lowell Liebermann, and
Jan van Gilse.

MARCH 11, 2018, 2:00 - 3:00 PM

BOA R D O F D IREC TORS
Ensemble Faucheux
Alix Corboy, President
Mary Park, Vice President Featuring Robyn Julyan (violin), Ben Tomkins (violin),
Walter Torres, Secretary
Sue Damour, Treasurer
Catherine Beeson (viola), and Heidi Mausbach (cello).
Program will include an eclectic mix of highly personal
BOA R D M EMB ERS
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Lydia Garmaier John Corigliano, Sahba Aminikia and others.
John Lebsack
Kathy Newman
Anna Psitos MAY 13, 2018, 2:00 - 3:00 PM
Myra Rich Patterson/Sutton Duo
Chet Stern
Eli Wald
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Andrew Yarosh guitar. The program will feature Hector Villa-Lobos's Aria
P RO JECT
from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, Ricardo Iznaola's Musique
A DMI N IS T RATOR de Salon, and a new work by Welsh composer, Stephen Goss.
Desiree Parrott-Alcorn
EMER ITU S
BOA R D M EMB ERS
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Suzanne Ryan

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GARRICK OHLSSON
TUES, FEB 20, 2018 | 7:30 PM
Garrick Ohlsson ranks among the towering figures
on the American keyboard scene. The first American
to win the prestigious International Chopin Piano
Competition in 1970, he has gone on to enjoy a brilliant
international career.
PROGRAM:
Program includes works by Beethoven, Schubert, and Scriabin.

MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN
WED, MAR 14, 2018 | 7:30 PM
Marc-André Hamelin is known for his unrivaled blend
of musicianship and virtuosity, whether he is performing
masterworks from the past or the present, including over-
looked gems from the 19th and 20th centuries.
PROGRAM:
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UPCOMING CONCERTS
C HAMBER SERIES PIAN O SERIES
Berlin Philharmonic Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Woodwind Quintet and Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Stephen Hough, piano Marc-André Hamelin, piano
Tuesday, February 6, 2018 Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Eighth Blackbird
Monday, April 23, 2018 SPECIAL EVENT S
Jordi Savall “Music in the Galleries”
Hespèrion XXI Clyfford Still Museum
Monday, May 7, 2018 1250 Bannock St., Denver
Ivy Street Ensemble
January 14, 2018, 2:00 PM
Ensemble Faucheux
March 11, 2018, 2:00 PM
Patterson/Sutton Duo
May 13, 2018, 2:00 PM

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