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1/10/2018

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard, winner of the 2017 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, launches the new year with the first of three performances of Bartók’s First Piano Concerto at the Boston Symphony this Thursday (Jan 11–13). Back in the States this spring, he tours to Carnegie Hall (March 8) and six more key U.S. venues (March 1–13) with a solo recital program built around Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” Sonata and the eighth movement of Messiaen’s Catalogue d’oiseaux. Following the success of his complete renditions of the work at the Aldeburgh, Tanglewood, and Ravinia Festivals, the Grammy Award-winning French pianist releases his first recording of the Catalogue d’oiseaux to inaugurate an exclusive new contract with the Pentatone label. Further live accounts of the Catalogue, in Paris and Amsterdam, bookend Aimard’s characteristically full and varied spring European lineup. This is highlighted by the continuation of his first year as Artist-in-Residence of London’s Southbank Centre, which sees him play Ravel’s G-major concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra (Jan 21) and curate a full weekend dedicated to the music of Ligeti (May 11–13).
 
For his return to the Boston Symphony this week, Aimard reunites with French conductor François-Xavier Roth, who was a regular guest during the pianist’s tenure as Artistic Director of England’s Aldeburgh Festival. In Boston, he and Roth join forces with the orchestra for Bartók’s percussive First Piano Concerto, in which Aimard previously impressed the New York Times with his “dazzling and crystalline performance.” It was also with the Hungarian composer’s music that he scored his fifth Grammy nomination, for his Deutsche Grammophon recording of the Concerto for Two Pianos and Percussion with Tamara Stefanovich; later this spring the two pianists reprise the work on a five-stop European tour with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra under Vladimir Jurowski.
 
Between his two Bartók engagements, Aimard embarks on a seven-city U.S. recital tour that takes in San Diego, San Francisco, Schenectady, Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York’s Carnegie Hall.

Pierre-Laurent Aimard: upcoming engagementsJan 11–13
Boston, MA
Boston Symphony Orchestra / François-Xavier Roth
BARTÓK: Piano Concerto No. 1
 
Jan 19
London, UK
Royal Academy of Music
Academy Soloists Ensemble / Aimard to direct from keyboard
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat, Op. 19
 
Jan 21
London, UK
Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall
Philharmonia Orchestra / Pablo Heras-Casado
RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G
 
Jan 28
Birmingham, UK
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group / Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
CARTER: Double Trio; Epigrams for piano trio; Two Thoughts About the Piano; Two Controversies and a Conversation
 
Jan 31
Paris, France
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France / Mikko Franck
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat, Op. 19
 
Feb 8 & 9
Strasbourg, France
Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg / Marko Letonja
RAVEL: Piano Concerto in D for the left hand
 
Feb 15–22: Solo recitals in Germany, Austria, and Hungary
BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat, Op. 106 (“Hammerklavier”)
PROKOFIEV: Sarcasms, Op. 17
OBUKHOV: Révélation
SCRIABIN: Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 70
SCRIABIN: Piano Sonata No. 5 in F-sharp, Op. 53
   Feb 15: Grünwald, Germany (Gemeinde Grünwald)
   Feb 17: Donaueschingen, Germany (Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Donaueschingen)
   Feb 19: Vienna, Austria (Musikverein)
   Feb 22: Budapest, Hungary (Jakobi Concerts)
 
March 1–13: U.S. solo recital tour
OBUKHOV: Révélation (San Diego, Schenectady, NYC)
OBUKHOV: Création d’or (San Diego, Schenectady, NYC)
LISZT: Nuages gris, S. 199 (San Diego, Schenectady, NYC)
LISZT: Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este (San Diego, Schenectady, NYC)
MESSIAEN: No. 8, “Le courlis cendré,” from Catalogue d’oiseaux (all locations)
SCRIABIN: Piano Sonata No. 5 in F-sharp, Op. 53 (San Diego, Schenectady, NYC)
LIGETI: Musica Ricercata (San Francisco, Baltimore, Philadelphia)
LIGETI: Études (Chicago)
BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat, Op. 106 (“Hammerklavier”) (all locations)
   March 1: San Diego, CA (La Jolla Music Society)
   March 2: San Francisco, CA (San Francisco Performances)
   March 4: Schenectady, NY (Union College Concert Series)
   March 6: Chicago, IL (University of Chicago Presents)
   March 8: New York, NY (Carnegie Hall)
   March 11: Baltimore, ML (Shriver Hall Concert Series)
   March 13: Philadelphia, PA (Philadelphia Chamber Music Society)
 
March 18
Paris, France
Cité de la Musique: Philharmonie de Paris
MESSIAEN: Catalogue d’oiseaux
 
March 27–April 15: tour with Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra / Vladimir Jurowski
BARTÓK: Concerto for Two Pianos and Percussion (with Tamara Stefanovich, piano)
   March 27: Dresden, Germany
   March 28: Luxembourg (Philharmonie)
   April 9: Hamburg, Germany
   April 10: Frankfurt, Germany
   April 15: Lisbon, Portugal
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