At this year’s festival the renowned pianist Maki Namekawa will perform several pieces by different composers solo as well as together with her husband Dennis Russell Davies.
Piano Performance / Maki Namekawa (JP), Dennis Russell Davies (AT/US), Credit: tom mesic
Piano Performance / Maki Namekawa (JP), Dennis Russell Davies (AT/US), Credit: tom mesic
Piano Performance / Maki Namekawa (JP), Dennis Russell Davies (AT/US), Credit: tom mesic
Piano Performance / Maki Namekawa (JP), Dennis Russell Davies (AT/US), Credit: tom mesic
Maki Namekawa performs Joep Beving, 16:30 – 17:00
In the solo part of the performance she plays three pieces by the Dutch pianist and composer Joep Beving, whose music has been brought to the attention of a wide audience by the streaming platform Spotify. He has released three albums – Solipsism, Prehension and Henosis.
- Ab Ovo
- Midwayer
- Hanging D
Piano Performance, 18:30 – 19:00
Joined by Dennis Russell Davies, the duo performs the two pieces Hymn to a Great City and Pari Intervallo by the renowned Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, who is a well-known representative of “New Simplicity.”
The program is rounded off by three piano four-hand pieces from György Kurtág’s Piano Transcriptions of Bach’s work.
- J.S.Bach – arr. György Kurtag: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit
- Arvo Pärt: Hymn to a Great City
- J.S.Bach – arr. György Kurtag: Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir
- Arvo Pärt: Pari interallo
- J.S.Bach – arr. György Kurtag: O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig
Maki Namekawas’ and Dennis Russell Davies’ performance puts new technological developments in AI and their application into context by contrasting them, in this case with “more” traditional, or analogue approaches. Furthermore, in the solo part, Maki Namekawa plays three pieces by the Dutch pianist and composer Joep Beving. His music has been brought to the attention of a wide audience by the streaming platform Spotify, which illustrates how also the music business changes along with new technological developments.
