Brahms’ lively Hungarian Dances are paired with Hindemith’s symphony Mathis der Maler (Matthias the Painter), a work that explores the role of an artist in society. David Fray performs Beethoven’s dramatic Third Piano Concerto.

Program

Brahms’ lively Hungarian Dances are paired with Hindemith’s symphony Mathis der Maler (Matthias the Painter), a work that explores the role of an artist in society. David Fray performs Beethoven’s dramatic Third Piano Concerto.

Riccardo Muti leads an evening of Austro-German and Italian splendor at the CSO’s annual Symphony Ball concert, featuring beloved Strauss waltzes and Mozart’s sublime Piano Concerto No. 24 with David Fray. “Fray is poetry on the keyboard” (Chicago Tribune).

A festive preconcert reception is open to all ticketholders at 6:00 p.m. at Symphony Center. The preconcert reception will include drinks and passed hors d’oeuvres, entertainment and other festivities.

Patrons purchasing Symphony Ball gala ticket packages will continue their evening with a postconcert dinner and dancing in the Grand Ballroom at the Palmer House. For more information and to purchase Gala ticket packages, please call 312-294-3185 or send us a message with this form.

Program

Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Ruth Reinhardt CONDUCTS
David Fray PIANO

World-renowned pianist David Fray performing Beethoven, along with the Háry János Suite by Kodály and Hindemith’s bracing and uplifting Concert Music for Strings and Brass.

Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Ruth Reinhardt CONDUCTS
David Fray PIANO

World-renowned pianist David Fray performing Beethoven, along with the Háry János Suite by Kodály and Hindemith’s bracing and uplifting Concert Music for Strings and Brass.

Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Ruth Reinhardt CONDUCTS
David Fray PIANO

World-renowned pianist David Fray performing Beethoven, along with the Háry János Suite by Kodály and Hindemith’s bracing and uplifting Concert Music for Strings and Brass.

Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Ruth Reinhardt CONDUCTS
David Fray PIANO

World-renowned pianist David Fray performing Beethoven, along with the Háry János Suite by Kodály and Hindemith’s bracing and uplifting Concert Music for Strings and Brass.

David Fray (France)
Piano Recital

 

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Organizers: Ildar Bakeyev Concert Foundation

David Fray  piano and direction
Jacques Rouvier  piano
Emmanuel Christien  piano
Audrey Vigoureux  piano

Programme

CARTE BLANCHE DAVID FRAY I

Bach Concerto for 2 pianos BWV 1061
Concerto for 2 pianos BWV 1060
Concerto for 2 pianos BWV 1062
Concerto for 3 pianos BWV 1063
Concerto for 4 pianos BWV 1065

In addition to his vast corpus for solo piano, Bach also composed six concertos for different piano configurations (BWV 1060 to BWV 1065). In this series, the three double concertos (BWV 1060, 1061 and 1062) rank very highly and all boast an extraordinary polyphonic richness. However, the apogee of the art is the sublime concerto for four pianos (BWV 1065) in which the musician displays his consummate skill in the allocation of parts between the four instruments. David Fray is in good company for this rare performance of the almost complete series.

Conductor:

Cristian Mandeal

Soloist:

 

Program:

A. Pärt: Fratres

F. Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2

David Fray makes his highly-anticipated debut on the NAC stage. The pianist is making waves for his ability to contrast explosive, muscular moments on the keyboard with sweet and fading sentimentality.  Chopin’s Concerto No. 2 serves as the perfect introduction to Fray’s polished finesse and panache: Chopin composed it as a piece intended to showcase his talents wherever he went as a traveling virtuoso. Fray has a particular affinity for the composer, having released an album of his piano music in 2017. Not only does the pianist have this intimate connection to the music, but he has previously worked with Music Director, Alexander Shelley. Delight in a performance rich in harmony from the close ties between the music and musicians.

Program:

• Schumann Symphony No. 1, “Spring”
• Jocelyn Morlock Cobalt
• Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2

 

Artists

• conductor: Alexander Shelley
• violin: Yosuke Kawasaki
• violin: Jessica Linnebach
• piano: David Fray

 

 

David Fray makes his highly-anticipated debut on the NAC stage. The pianist is making waves for his ability to contrast explosive, muscular moments on the keyboard with sweet and fading sentimentality.  Chopin’s Concerto No. 2 serves as the perfect introduction to Fray’s polished finesse and panache: Chopin composed it as a piece intended to showcase his talents wherever he went as a traveling virtuoso. Fray has a particular affinity for the composer, having released an album of his piano music in 2017. Not only does the pianist have this intimate connection to the music, but he has previously worked with Music Director, Alexander Shelley. Delight in a performance rich in harmony from the close ties between the music and musicians.

Program:

• Schumann Symphony No. 1, “Spring”
• Jocelyn Morlock Cobalt
• Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2

 

Artists

• conductor: Alexander Shelley
• violin: Yosuke Kawasaki
• violin: Jessica Linnebach
• piano: David Fray

Program:

• Schumann Symphony No. 1, “Spring”
• Jocelyn Morlock Cobalt
• Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2
• National Arts Centre Orchestra

 

• conductor: Alexander Shelley
• violin: Yosuke Kawasaki
• violin: Jessica Linnebach
• piano: David Fray

Programme

• J.S. Bach – Goldberg – Variations, BWV 988

This concert has an intermission

 

Master Pianists series:

The Master Pianists series has existed since 1987 and is organised by Riaskoff Concert Management, an internationally renowned management agency for classical musicians. For many years now, the Master Pianists series has been among the most prestigious piano series in the world. Ever since its inaugural season in 1987-1988, the series guarantees recitals of exceptional quality by the world’s most revered pianists. The Master Pianists series not only presents pianists of established international renown, each season it also offers opportunities to at least one promising young pianist. For many talented young pianists, such a recital is seen as another step on the path to a major career.

Programme

CARTE BLANCHE DAVID FRAY II

Bach Sonata for violin and piano No. 3 BWV 1016
Sonata for violin and piano No. 4 BWV 1017
Sonata for violin and piano No. 5 BWV 1018
Beethoven Sonata for violin and piano No. 9 « A Kreutzer »

David Fray and Renaud Capuçon, his partner for this Bach-Beethoven evening, have put together a sumptuous programme. The first half will consist of three of the six sonatas for violin and harpsichord (performed on the piano tonight) which will arouse the admiration of the audience, but also represent a real challenge for the performers. This cycle for a string and keyboard duo is the product of the commanding hand of a driven musician. The rigor of the composition, with its wealth of contrasts and inventive touches, spans the full emotional spectrum, from the most extreme tension to the subtlest sensuality. In counterpoint, the second half will feature the Kreutzer Sonata, the most famous (and longest at nearly 40 minutes) of Beethoven’s ten sonatas, a “hand-to-hand battle between two instruments” joined here by a pair of exceptional performers.

Program

Renaud Capuçon / David Fray

Johann Sebastian Bach Sonata for violin and keyboard no. 3, in e major, BWV 1016 -16 min

Johann Sebastian Bach Sonata for violin and keyboard no. 4 in c minor, BWV 1017 -17 minutes

Johann Sebastian Bach Sonata for violin and keyboard no. 5 in f minor, BWV 1018 -18 min

Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata for violin and piano No. 9 in a major, op. 47, “Kreutzer” -34 min

Comments from before concert

At 3 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes
Lower-atrium, free entry

Renaud Capuçon: Violin

David Fray: Piano

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750)

Violin Sonata in E, BWV 1016

Adagio

Allegro

Adagio ma non tanto

Allegro

 

Violin Sonata in C minor, BWV 1017

Siciliano: Largo

Allegro

Adagio

Allegro

 

Violin Sonata in F minor, BWV 1018

Largo

Allegro

Adagio

Vivace

 

– Intermission –

 

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827)

Violin Sonata in A, op. 47

   »Kreutzer-Sonate«

Adagio sostenuto – Presto

Andante con variazioni

Finale: Presto

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Programme

CARTE BLANCHE DAVID FRAY III

Bach Goldberg Variations BWV 988

His leading man good looks and natural elegance have been the hallmark of the early years of young French pianist David Fray’s career. Taught by Jacques Rouvier and winner of the Second Grand Prize at the Montreal International Music Competition, he came to public attention with an unconventional but successful recording of Bach and Boulez, an unusual marriage which emphasises his personality and taste for musical affinities. David Fray devotes his three-part Carte Blanche this season to the iconic Cantor of Leipzig. With this final concert he reaches the apogee of the Goldberg Variations, thirty fantastical variations of uncommon intensity which their composer claimed to have penned “for enthusiasts and to entertain the mind”. This is an incredible summary of a whole life of music.