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Music: Philippe Cassard & Cédric Pescia
Music · Tuesday, November 24 · 20:00 · Le Havre
8 place Oscar Niemeyer, Le Volcan
How bold are the two renowned pianists as they take on Franz Liszt’s transcription of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony? In 1838 the Hungarian composer began this colossal task of adapting Beethoven’s nine symphonies for solo piano. It would take nearly twenty-seven years before Liszt published his transcriptions, the fruit of meticulous effort in simplification and rearrangements. He would then declare: “The more intimate you become with Beethoven, the more you cling to certain peculiarities and you discover that even the insignificant details…"
