Fourtissimo is a piano quartet in the grand tradition of the golden age of the piano. Comprising four renowned young pianists, Ran Dank, Soyeon Lee, Roman Rabinovich and Vassilis Varvaresos, prize winners all, the group is devoted to reviving old performance practice traditions while at the same time breaking out of today’s often stultifying conventional concert format. Fourtissimo will present its four pianists in different combinations, from the intimate setting of four hands—once a staple of home music-making—to the grand symphonic arrangements for eight hands/two pianos that were often, by necessity, a substitute for rare live orchestral performances. Fourtissimo’s repertoire includes staples of the literature in arrangements seldom or never heard before, from Bach’s “Art of Fugue” through Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony to Fourtissimo’s own transcriptions of music from the Beatles and works by Piazolla. Fourtissimo’s concept is to revive the sense of joy and discovery that were part of musical performance in an earlier era.
10/08/2010 20:00, Carnegie's Zankel Hall
Fourtissimo is a piano quartet in the grand tradition of the golden age of the piano. Comprising four renowned young pianists, Ran Dank, Soyeon Lee, Roman Rabinovich and Vassilis Varvaresos, prize winners all, the group is devoted to reviving old performance practice traditions while at the same time breaking out of today’s often stultifying conventional concert format. Fourtissimo will present its four pianists in different combinations, from the intimate setting of four hands—once a staple of home music-making—to the grand symphonic arrangements for eight hands/two pianos that were often, by necessity, a substitute for rare live orchestral performances. Fourtissimo’s repertoire includes staples of the literature in arrangements seldom or never heard before, from Bach’s “Art of Fugue” through Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony to Fourtissimo’s own transcriptions of music from the Beatles and works by Piazolla. Fourtissimo’s concept is to revive the sense of joy and discovery that were part of musical performance in an earlier era.