What if you could experience Vladimir Horowitz, Arthur Rubinstein, Glenn Gould, or George Gershwin live at the piano today? PLAYING WITH LEGENDS makes this possible: Maria Radutu engages in a musical dialogue with the greatest pianists in history – she responds to them, adopts their musical ideas, plays with them, and sometimes even in direct ping-pong. A concert between past and present that has never been done before.
This encounter is made possible through an extraordinary combination of historical interpretation and state-of-the-art concert technology. Developed in collaboration with Steinway & Sons, PLAYING WITH LEGENDS brings the original interpretations of the great “Immortals” back to the concert stage: not as a recording from speakers, but actually played – note for note, touch for touch – on a Steinway & Sons Spirio.
But PLAYING WITH LEGENDS is not a tech show. It is a live concert and a musical encounter that should be impossible. Maria Radutu engages in a genuine musical dialogue with the great pianists of the past: she responds, adopts musical ideas, develops them further, and plays with them. For example, when Arthur Rubinstein and Radutu shape Chopin's A-flat Polonaise in musical ping-pong or when Vladimir Horowitz becomes her counterpart in Schumann's Kinderszenen, the boundaries between then and now blur.
In the Dom im Berg, this encounter on October 10 will become an immersive total experience. Light, projections, and the architecture deep in Graz's Schlossberg expand the concert into a visual and acoustic production – without the music becoming a secondary matter.
On stage, works and interpretations by Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Kapustin, Gershwin, and Margareta Ferek-Petrić meet – along with very different pianistic personalities from several generations.
One piano. One pianist. The greatest pianists in history. And an evening when musically what should be impossible becomes possible.
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