A magnificent start to the anniversary season: At the beginning of the 30th Ebersberg piano cycle of the Zorneding-Baldham cultural association, the exceptional pianist Hinrich Alpers interprets two Beethoven symphonies in the highly virtuoso piano version by Franz Liszt. The concert will take place on Sunday, October 23 at 5 p.m. in the Altes Kino Ebersberg.
Alpers, winner of the Beethoven Competition in Bonn, was supposed to make his debut with this program in Ebersberg in Beethoven Year 2020, which had to be postponed due to the pandemic. His complete recording of these piano versions has now been released by Sony and has received enthusiastic reviews.
As early as the summer of 1837, the 25-year-old Liszt had written the first three of his Beethoven transcriptions, completed in 1864: ingenious attempts to translate the spirit of Beethoven’s orchestral scores into piano music as faithfully as possible – and at the same time sound documents of Liszt’s lifelong admiration of the great Viennese classic. In Ebersberg, in addition to Liszt’s arrangement of the popular third symphony (“Eroica”), Beethoven’s often underestimated Fourth, which hides the radical joy of experimentation and explosive power of the musical revolutionary Beethoven under its cheerful sound surface.
The pianist Hinrich Alpers, who was born in Uelzen and has been a professor of piano at the Musikhochschule in Dresden since 2021, received his training from the age of ten at the Musikhochschule in Hanover with Bernd Goetzke and completed his studies at the New York Juilliard School with Jerome Loewenthal. In addition to regular world premieres, his repertoire includes the entire piano works of Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms and Ravel. His complete recording of the songs and chamber music by Rudi Stephan (Sony), who died young in World War I, was awarded one of the first Opus Klassik prizes in 2018.
Tickets can be ordered at www.kulturverein-zorneding-baldham.de (ticket shop) and at Steffi’s stationery, Obere Bahnhofstraße 13, in Zorneding. The evening box office opens 30 minutes before the start of the concert.