Opening Concert - Für Kenner & Liebhaber

Opening Concert: Wednesday 29 July · 20:00
Chiesa San Francesco, Asciano 

Kristian Bezuidenhout offers a finely nuanced portrait of late eighteenth-century keyboard art, where sensitivity and formal control meet. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, a pivotal figure between the Baroque and Classical eras and a major source of inspiration for Haydn and Mozart, opens with an expressive Rondo from his collections of the same name: music for connoisseurs and enthusiasts alike, rich in capricious contrasts and rhetorical turns.

Haydn then explores the dramatic possibilities of the minor mode in two sonatas: the compact, driven Sonata in C minorand the later, more introspective Sonata in G minor. After the interval, Mozart's intimate Rondo in A minor is heard, a rare work of melancholy, followed by the monumental Sonata in C minor, K. 457, a cornerstone of his keyboard repertoire, where virtuosity and profound expression converge.

Programme 

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788):
Rondo in C minor, Wq. 59/4 (5), from Für Kenner und Liebhaber

Joseph Haydn (1732–1809):
Sonata in C minor, Hob. XVI:20
Sonata in G minor, Hob. XVI:44 

interval 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791):
Rondo in A minor, K. 511
Sonata in C minor, K. 457