© Julien Mignot
Piano fantasies through the centuries
Alexander Melnikov
7 to 9 p.m., break
With Many Pianos , the Russian pianist invites us into the realm of fantasies and spans a musical arc of this unique musical form through the centuries to the present day. A stroll through the instrumental park: five pianos pose on the FaustForum stage: a harpsichord and three fortepianos by Walter, Graf and Pleyel from the workshop of Christoph Kern, as well as the in-house Bechstein concert grand.
Contributors
Alexander Melnikov
on five different instruments
Program
MANY PIANOS
Johann Sebastian Bach
Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor BWV 903
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Free Fantasy in F sharp minor Wq 67
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Fantasy for piano in C minor K. 475
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Fantasy in F sharp minor op. 28 “Sonate écossaise”
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Frédéric Chopin
Fantasy in F minor op. 49
Alexander Scriabin
Fantasy in B minor op. 28
Alfred Schnittke
Improvisation and fugue
“… Listening to Melnikov is always worthwhile — and sometimes I wish his playing would never stop.”