With its Sinfonia India, the Mexican Chavez gives a new life to the songs of the Huichol, Yaqui and Seri tribe Indians. For his part, Ginastera depicts the pampas of his native Argentina and its gauchos. Further north, Gershwin, “classical jazz” music, dazzles by his crossbred music that will be electrified by Francesco Tristano.
Tag: piano concerto
Island Nation @ Leipziger Volkszeitung
“Francesco Tristano’s “free” improvised Piano Concerto was a brilliantly received example of how classical music is able to excite audiences today. Standing ovations.” Leipziger Volkszeitung 7 March 2016.
Island Nation @ Boiler Room
Boiler Room will stream the world premiere of Francesco Tristano’s Piano Concerto: Island Nation live from the Gewandhaus Leipzig with the MDR Symphony conducted by Kristjan Jarvi, and FT at the piano.
Drawing inspiration from a recent trip to an unnamed island nation, FT’s free piano concerto is free inasmuch as the piano part is only written down in part and leaves considerable space open for improvisation.
The piano takes on the identity of a free island nation surrounded by the ocean – the orchestra – which in turn provides the laws, harmonic and rhythmic, that rule the structure and evolution of the three movements. This is FT’s first composition for large orchestra since 1997.
FT March 2016 dates
Francesco Tristano is scheduled to play the following halls:
- 05/03 – FT & MDR Sinfonieorchester w/Kristjan Järvi & Stefano Bollani @ Gewandhaus. Leipzig, DE
- 11/03 – solo piano recital @ Alte Oper Frankfurt. Frankfurt, DE
- 12/03 – KST play Afrodiziak @ Philharmonie Essen. Essen, DE
- 25/03 – FT live ! w/Derrick May @ Jet Lounge. Houston-TX, US
- 26/03 – FT live ! @ Apparitions Festival. Todos Santos, Baja California, MX
- 31/03 – FT live ! The Art Room by Bombay Sapphire @ MACBA. Barcelona, ES
