PIANOPOLIS - TANGUY DE WILLIENCOURT & ORCHERSTRE NATIONAL DES PAYS DE LA LOIRE
Numbered seating.
To close this fourth edition of Angers Pianopolis, Tanguy de Williencourt and the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire invite us to an exceptional concert. A rare opportunity to see and hear the solo pianist conduct the orchestra!
Chopin composed his Piano Concerto No. 2 in Warsaw, before leaving his homeland for good and exiling himself to Paris in the face of the Russian occupation of Poland in 1830. The inimitable melodic force of the Italian bel canto, the poetic summit of Chopin's work, is heard beneath the soaring piano and tremolos of the strings, the song of a distraught melody dedicated to his friend Konstanze Gladowska.
The Andante spianato also illustrates this art of delicate singing, transposed to the piano by Chopin after the human voice and the lyricism of Italian opera. As for the Grande Polonaise brillante, it embodies the pride of Polish dance and identity. Poland's soul and nostalgia, its resistance, always vibrate beneath these notes - "cannons under flowers" wrote Schumann. A poet of the piano, an artist in exile, a visionary and rebellious composer, Chopin is at his best in the two works featured in this concert.
Tanguy de Williencourt, faithful guest pianist with the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, will perform these marvellous pages, which are also a love song to Poland, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the twinning of Torun and Angers.
Frédéric Chopin:
"Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brillante" - 14'; "Concerto pour piano n°2" - 32' and other solo piano works
Approximate duration: 1h
Numbered seating.
To close this fourth edition of Angers Pianopolis, Tanguy de Williencourt and the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire invite us to an exceptional concert. A rare opportunity to see and hear the solo pianist conduct the orchestra!
Chopin composed his Piano Concerto No. 2 in Warsaw, before leaving his homeland for good and exiling himself to Paris in the face of the Russian occupation of Poland in 1830. The inimitable melodic force of the Italian bel canto, the poetic summit of Chopin's work, is heard beneath the soaring piano and tremolos of the strings, the song of a distraught melody dedicated to his friend Konstanze Gladowska.
The Andante spianato also illustrates this art of delicate singing, transposed to the piano by Chopin after the human voice and the lyricism of Italian opera. As for the Grande Polonaise brillante, it embodies the pride of Polish dance and identity. Poland's soul and nostalgia, its resistance, always vibrate beneath these notes - "cannons under flowers" wrote Schumann. A poet of the piano, an artist in exile, a visionary and rebellious composer, Chopin is at his best in the two works featured in this concert.
Tanguy de Williencourt, faithful guest pianist with the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, will perform these marvellous pages, which are also a love song to Poland, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the twinning of Torun and Angers.
Frédéric Chopin:
"Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brillante" - 14'; "Concerto pour piano n°2" - 32' and other solo piano works
Approximate duration: 1h
