Фестиваль Вербье 2023 - Tsotne Zedginidze performs new original work, Schubert, and Ravel
Program:
00:03 Tsotne Zedginidze, Fantaisie-Impromptu
Franz Schubert, Four impromptus, Op. 90, D. 899
13:52 No. 1 in C minor (Allegro molto moderato)
23:40 No. 2 in E flat major (Allegro)
28:47 No. 3 in G flat major (Andante)
35:47 No. 4 in A flat major (Allegretto)
1:04:49 Tsotne Zedginidze, Dedication to Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel, Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55
1:11:45 I. Ondine
1:19:42 II. Le Gibet
1:25:25 III. Scarbo
1:39:31 Tsotne Zedginidze, Prelude No. 2
***********************************************
Cast
Tsotne Zedginidze — Pianist
Venue: Verbier Church (Verbier, Switzerland)
Broadcast date: Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Program notes
The prodigious Tsotne Zedginidze makes his anticipated return to the Verbier Festival for its 30th anniversary edition! The young pianist regales us, as ever, with a daring program made up of repertoire favorites as well as some of his own pieces.
The prolific Tsotne opens the program by sharing his own new Fantaisie-Impromptu with the Verbier audience, before taking on the four beloved Impromptus of Schubert’s Op. 90, featuring some of the composer’s stormiest and most heart-rending passages. After the pause, he performs another new work—a tribute to Debussy and Ravel—and then moves on to the monumental challenge of Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit, one of the most notoriously demanding works ever written for the piano (by design—Ravel set out to surpass the difficulty of Balakirev’s Islamey).