Archive 2010

TUE 14. SEP 2010, 9 p.m.

»Kreisleriana« Project

Palais Schaumburg

• Susanne Kessel (Piano, Presentation)

• Robert Schumann: »Kreisleriana«. Eight pieces for piano op. 16
Michael Denhoff, Sascha Dragicevic, Alvin Lucier, Alex Shapiro, Leon Milo, Moritz Eggert, Ivan Sokolov, Manfred Niehaus: »Kreisleriana 2010«

Kreisler Old and New

For his bicentenary, pianist Susanne Kessel from Bonn is dedicating a piano evening to Robert Schumann, focusing on one of his most famous works, the »Kreisleriana«. While the title is a reference to E.T.A. Hoffmann’s autobiographical figure Johannes Kreisler, we are presented with a new psychological portrait of the composer from a compositional standpoint, which can hardly be ex­ceeded in subjectivity and depth. Susanne Kessel will compare and contrast the eight pieces by Schumann with eight new compositions, which reflect the balladic romance-like character from the perspective of the 21st century.