Tomorrow Tuesday at 19.30, the Fundación Scherzo presents the return of the Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski to the Ciclo de Grandes Intérpretes, in a unique concert that will take place in the Symphonic Hall of the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid.
If there is one thing that has defined Piotr Anderszewski throughout his career, it has been rigour and consistency. Even his resounding withdrawal from the final of the Leeds Competition in 1990 because he felt that his interpretation “had not been up to the mark”, despite the fact that a large part of the jury considered him the winner, shows that this is an artist whose love of music transcends any kind of interpretation.
Anderszewski’s coherence is revealed in his well-spun programmes, which trace a musical route in which the performer guides the listener through a concept, at first sight hidden from the audience, but which is discovered as the works follow one after the other. And this concert is no exception, because the musical journey proposed by the Polish maestro begins with J. S. Bach, with his Partita No. 6 (BWV 830), to immediately dive into a selection of Mazurkas from op. 50 by K. Szymanowski, works that reunited the Polish composer with the folkloric spirit so deeply rooted in the nationalism of the Great War.
The second part of the evening featured two of the undisputed benchmarks in Western music. The first of these is Anton von Webern, the leading representative of the Second Vienna School and of German dodecaphonism together with Arnold Schönberg, whose Variations op. 27 will be performed. To conclude the recital, Anderszewski travels to the First Vienna School with one of the last three sonatas by L. van Beethoven: specifically Sonata no. 31, op. 110. Tickets can be purchased at this link.
