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Pure Series - Konstantin Lifschitz interprets Chopin classics

Guangzhou Opera House, Experimental Theater, Guangzhou, China
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7:30 PM

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Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Guangzhou, China
Starts at: 19:30

E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.

You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).

Programme
Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in F-Sharp Minor, Op.6 no.1
Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in F minor, Op.7 no.3
Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in A minor, Op.17 no. 4
Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in C major op. 24 no. 2
Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in B flat minor, Op.24 no.4
Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in A flat major, Op.41 no.4
Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in C major, Op.56 no.2
Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in C Minor, Op. 56 no.3
Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in F minor, Op. 59 no. 3
Frédéric Chopin: Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor 'Funeral March', Op.35
Overview

Commemorating the 175th anniversary of Chopin’s death.

"In fact, it is not so appropriate that Konstantin made playing the piano so simple and easy, because he was so poetic when playing that it is difficult for us to describe his playing in terms of difficulty." - The New York Times
 
"Konstantin can maximize the musical color of the piano and bring out the full potential of the melody. His stage style is gentlemanly, his impeccable authority is indeed unassuming, and he is most persuasive, emphasizing the life in the work, not the A monument to musical history." - The Guardian
 
"Perhaps because of Konstantin's superb playing skills, he is not only very sensitive to changes in details such as touch, tone and pedals, just like the beautiful forte that rises like a bell curve, but he is also always firmly aware of changes in the structure of the music. Take it. It was a most profound, satisfying and magical evening!" - Daily Independent
 
Since Konstantin Lifschitz made his astonishing piano debut at the Union House Hall in Moscow at the age of 13, he has performed in all the world's first-class concert halls and frequently at the world's most important music festivals. His figure appeared. He has performed with top international symphony orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Moscow Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra etc.
 
Lifschitz began to learn piano when he was five years old. He had studied with Alfred Brendel, Fou T'song, Theodor Gutmann, Vladimir Tropp, Fulai He studied with pianists such as Leon Fleisher and Rosalyn Tureck.
 
In 1994, 17-year-old Konstantin Lifschitz played Bach's "Gothenburg Variations" at his graduation concert. Japan's Columbia Record Company was amazed by such an emotional interpretation and delicate music, and immediately released the album. This performance was recorded on record. The record was released in 1996 and was immediately nominated for that year's Grammy Awards. "New York Times" music critic Rothstein even praised Lifschitz's performance: "This is the most powerful piano interpretation after the great Gould." Just one year later, at the age of 20, His first recording album (Bach's "French Suite", Schumann's "Butterfly", Metternich and Scriabin's works) won the "European Best of the Year" award from Germany's "Echo Klassik" (Classical Echo). Best Artist" award, and has published more than ten music albums.

Venue Info

Guangzhou Opera House - Guangzhou
Location   No.1 Zhujiang West Road, Zhujiang New Town, Tianhe District

Guangzhou Opera House is a Chinese opera house in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, People's Republic of China. Designed by Zaha Hadid, it opened on the 9th of May in 2010.

In April 2002 an international architectural competition attracted Coop Himmelb(l)au, Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid – each producing detailed designs. In November 2002, Zaha Hadid's "double pebble" was announced the winner and the groundbreaking ceremony was held early in 2005.

The theatre has become the biggest performing centre in southern China and is one of the three biggest theatres in the nation alongside Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts and Shanghai's Shanghai Grand Theatre. May 2010 saw American filmmaker Shahar Stroh direct the premiere production of the opera house: Puccini's opera Turandot which had in previous years been a controversial opera in China.

The structure was designed by Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid. It is conceived as two rocks washed away by the Pearl River. Its freestanding concrete auditorium set within an exposed granite and glass-clad steel frame took over five years to build, and was praised upon opening by architectural critic Jonathan Glancey in The Guardian, who called it "at once highly theatrical and insistently subtle."

Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Guangzhou, China
Starts at: 19:30
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