Songs Without Words - Ber­trand Chamayou Solo Re­cital

Critics are raving about Bertrand Chamayou's piano playing. His programming has been called original and searching, his playing dynamic, technically perfect, and breathtakingly beautiful.
Songs without words is the guiding theme of this concert, as the entire repertoire is related to songs that have inspired composers. Mendelssohn's short lyrical pieces, Songs Without Words, are a fitting beginning to this journey. They are accompanied by music that rhymes with Mendelssohn's gentle and intimate songs, including Charles Ives' Song Without (Good) Words, Schumann's "Dedication," and Kurtág's dreamy retelling of a forgotten Romanian Christmas carol. George Crumbs' interpretation of Thelonious Monk's classic opus ’Round Midnight, in Eine kleine Mitternachtmusik and Takemitsu's free-form arrangement of the Beatles' Golden Slumbers take us to exotic places. The concert concludes with the magnificent Wanderer Fantasy by Franz Schubert, where each of the four movements begins with a variation on the composer's song of the same name.

Piano
Bertrand Chamayou

Program
Felix Mendelssohn Lieder ohne Worte, op. 19 no. 1 and 2
Felix Mendelssohn Lieder ohne Worte, op. 38 no. 5
Charles Ives Song Without (good) Words
Felix Mendelssohn Lieder ohne Worte, op. 67 no. 4
John Lennon & Paul McCartney / TōruTakemitsu Golden Slumbers
Robert Schumann / Franz Liszt Widmung
George Crumb Eine kleine Mitternachtmusik
György Kurtág Scraps of a Colinda Melody - faintly recollected
Franz Shubert Wanderer Fantasie

Promoter

Sinfóníuhljómsveit Íslands