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

Comments from before concert

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

Johann Sebastian Bach Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 3 E major BWV 1016, Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 4 C minor BWV 1017, Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 5 in F minor BWV 1018 
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 9 in A major op. 47 »Kreutzer«

David Fray direcção musical e piano

Johann Sebastian Bach Concerto para piano e orquestra em Ré menor, BWV 1052

Johann Sebastian Bach Concerto para piano e orquestra em Lá maior, BWV 1055

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Concerto para piano e orquestra nº 24, em Dó menor, K.491

Descrito como “poeta” e “talvez o mais inspirado e original intérprete de Bach da sua geração”, David Fray faz a sua estreia na Casa da Música com repertório que lhe trouxe a aclamação internacional. A gravação dos Concertos de Bach com a Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen valeu‑lhe o prestigiado Prémio da Crítica Discográfica Alemã. Em 2008 foi Revelação do Ano da BBC Music Magazine. Ao lado da Orquestra Sinfónica apresenta concertos de compositores cimeiros da história da música ocidental.

“Fray tem uma técnica brilhante e um respeito sério e profundo pela música.” CHICAGO TRIBUNE

ORQUESTRA SINFÓNICA DO PORTO CASA DA MÚSICA

David Fray direcção musical e piano

Concerto comentado por Helena Marinho

Johann Sebastian Bach Concerto para piano e orquestra em Lá maior, BWV 1055

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Concerto para piano e orquestra nº 24, em Dó menor, K.491

No fim‑de‑semana em que decorre a homenagem a Helena Sá e Costa, e no preciso dia em que se completam 106 anos desde o seu nascimento, a Orquestra Sinfónica apresenta um programa com dois dos compositores preferidos da célebre pianista portuense. A leveza do Concerto em Lá maior, com melodias sinuosas e virtuosismo ornamental, faz deste um excelente exemplo do estilo concertante de Bach. Com os seus comentários, Helena Marinho tornará clara a diferença entre a música concertante dos períodos Barroco e Clássico – este último ilustrado com um elegante e delicado concerto de Mozart. Autêntica revelação das salas de concerto na última década, o francês David Fray é simultaneamente maestro e solista nestes diálogos entre orquestra e piano, num dia muito especial para todos os amantes do instrumento.

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

Prices II: 69 € / 59 € / 49 € / 39 €

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.