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After the extraordinary recital of Vadym Kholodenko, it is already time for the last concert of the 2022-2023 season of the Brussels Chopin Days.
Fortunately we may say that it closes with a bang when the stage is given to Canadian piano virtuoso Charles Richard-Hamelin.
He too proposes a program that is entirely devoted to F. Chopin, a composer that will forever play a special role in his life, after becoming the 2nd Prize Winner of the International F. Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 2015, where he also won the special Krystian Zimerman Prize.
Charles Richard-Hamelin won as well a Second Prize and the prestigious International Montreal Piano Competition and a Third Prize at the International Seoul Piano Competition, and has since played all around the globe.
He has been the guest at prestigious festivals such as La Roque d'Anthéron or the 'Chopin and his Europe' Festival, and played with dozens of orchestras and conductors such as Kent Nagano, Vasily Petrenko or Antoni Wit.
At this day he released not less than ten cd's, half of which are entirely dedicated to F. Chopin. It may therefor not come as a surprise that Charles Richard-Hamelin is the ideal guest to close this special season.
It is on Friday 26 May that he will come to Brussels, and this with a more than wonderful program.
He chooses to devote the first notes of his recital to the compelling 2 Nocturnes, Op. 27, followed by the virtuosic and dramatic Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 35.
The four-movement sonata is considered as one of the absolute highlights in piano literature, and is also known as the 'Sonate Funèbre' for his funeral march in the third movement.
After the break we may hear an opus that has not been performed for a while during the Brussels Chopin Days: the 24 Preludes, Op. 28.
The 24 short works that Chopin wrote in 24 different tonalities embody about everything that Chopin stands for: poetry, passion, nostalgia, and virtuosity.
Charles-Richard Hamelin seems the dream pianist to present this magic set of pieces in Brussels.
You may not miss this.
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