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9.3.15

Till Fellner Back at Austrian Embassy


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Bach, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, T. Fellner
(ECM, 2004)
Charles T. Downey, Adhering to his exquisite musicality, Fellner plays a sophisticated recital (Washington Post, March 9)
The devastating snowstorms of 2010 deprived Washington of one concert in Till Fellner’s complete cycle of Beethoven’s piano sonatas. Snow fell again this week, but for his latest recital here, presented by the Embassy Series at the Austrian Embassy on Friday evening, the Austrian pianist dodged winter’s last gasp.

Fellner’s programming approach was similar to that of his Kennedy Center recital in 2011, beginning with music requiring exceptional finesse and concluding with a virtuosic tour de force. In Mozart’s Rondo No. 3 in A minor, K. 511, and in Piano Sonata in E-flat, K. 282, Fellner played his trump card... [Continue reading]
Till Fellner, piano
Music by Mozart, Bach, Schumann
Embassy Series
Embassy of Austria

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Beethoven sonata cycle
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