Masterpieces - Piano recital with Igor Kamenz

"The best things in music are not written in the notes."

This saying by Gustav Mahler underlines the importance of the performer. It takes more than virtuoso skills to breathe life into black dots on music paper. You have to understand the idea, analyze the notation, feel the inspiration from a wealth of experience and profound knowledge of the composer, his ideas, the contemporary context and timeless emotional coping strategies. This diligence in development and realization characterizes the Merzhausen-based pianist Igor Kamenz, of whom the major music magazine "crescendo" wrote: "If there is such a thing as spaces that are created in music, then Igor Kamenz is an architect of this world."

At the piano recital on 8. On the piano recital on March 8, Igor Kamenz will open up rooms at FORUM Merzhausen that are designed and furnished differently: from the romantic intimacy of the love song "Widmung" by Robert Schumann, arranged for piano by Franz Liszt, which he gave as the opening of a song cycle to his bride Clara Wieck as a wedding present, to the colorful hustle and bustle of Schumann's piano cycle "Carnaval", consisting of short character pieces, the wild leaps of a puppet coming to life in Stravinsky's "Fragments from the ballet Petrushka" and Ravel's thoughtful "Pavane for a deceased princess" through to Balakirev's "Islamej", an "oriental fantasy", which was long considered the most difficult piece for piano due to its technical demands. On the piano recital on March 8, Igor Kamenz invites you to take a stroll through a house full of surprises.

The program sequence in detail:

Franz Liszt/Robert Schumann: Liebeslied (dedication)
Robert Schumann: Carnaval op. 9

Intermission

Igor Stravinsky: Three fragments from the ballet Petrushka
Maurice Ravel: Pavane for a deceased princess
Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev: Islamej