Kraków’s music lovers have waited for this concert for a long time: the ICE Classic cycle makes a welcome return to the Krzysztof Penderecki Auditorium Hall at the ICE Kraków Congress Centre with a recital by Bruce Liu – the great virtuoso makes his first visit to Kraków! The winner of the 18th Chopin Competition says he became a professional pianist quite by accident. But don’t be fooled: the Chinese-Canadian artist’s “playing of breathtaking beauty” captivated the BBC Music Magazine, while Diapason describes him as having an “elf-like virtuosity”. In November he launched his first studio album, featuring a panorama of French music from Rameau to Ravel. As well as works by these two composers, we will hear Liszt’s Réminiscences de Don Juan and Chopin’s Variations on “Là ci darem la mano” which dazzled the audience of the Chopin Competition in Warsaw.
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Les tendres plaintes
Les cyclopes
Menuets I & II (Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin)
Les sauvages
La poule
Gavotte et six doubles
Fryderyk Chopin
Variations on "Là ci darem la mano" Op. 2
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Maurice Ravel
Miroirs
I. Noctuelles
II. Oiseaux tristes
III. Une barque sur l’océan
IV. Alborada del grazioso
V. La vallée des cloches
Ferenc Liszt
Réminiscences de Don Juan
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ICE Classic is a unique series of classical music concerts, which induced Kraków to the group of important music stages in Europe. All concerts of the ICE Classic series are held in the Krzysztof Penderecki Hall at the ICE Kraków Congress Centre. Thanks to the concert space offered by the ICE Kraków Congress Centre, the capital of the Małopolska region has at its disposal a concert venue accommodating nearly 2,000 people, with excellent technical facilities and high acoustic performance.
The ICE Classic brand is consistently built upon the performances of the greatest stars of classical music. Krakow has already hosted some of the most outstanding opera soloists of our times: Aleksandra Kurzak, Edita Gruberová, Diana Damrau, Elīna Garanča and Philippe Jaroussky, exquisite instrumentalists: Anne-Sophie Mutter, Isabelle Faust, Ivo Pogorelić and Piotr Anderszewski, the outstanding conductor Kent Nagano with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Sir Simon Rattle with the London Symphony Orchestra, Philippe Herreweghe with Orchestre des Champs-Elysées and the extraordinary composer Max Richter.
