The Tsinandali Festival is back for its sixth edition in 2024! Every year since 2019, the greatest performers, conductors, composers, and artists from all over the world have joined forces in the magnificent village of Tsinandali, in eastern Georgia, to promote music in this region at the crossroads of Europe and Asia — affording young musicians from the Caucasus the opportunity to study and perform with top-name artists, and offering audiences worldwide an unforgettable musical experience in an idyllic locale.
Pianist Boris Giltburg, winner of the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2013, arrives at the 2024 Tsinandali Festival with a program comprising two large-scale masterpieces of Romantic piano. First up is Schumann's 1834 Carnaval, a series of 21 motivically linked, heavily allusive masquerade-ball miniatures that evoke everything from commedia dell'arte characters to Schumann's then-fiancée Ernestine von Fricken, future wife Clara Wieck, and illustrious colleague Frédéric Chopin. Giltburg then moves on to one of the piano's most formidable challenges: Liszt's Piano Sonata in B Minor, a continuously flowing burst of music that juxtaposes passages of furious virtuosity and heart-rending lyricism.
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