CONCERT
Dienstag, 21 .September
7.30 pm
Steigenberger, Grandhotel and Spa
Heringsdorf seaside resort
Nightingales singing
Lukas Geniušas (Piano)
Works by FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
BRONIUS KUTAVIČIUS: Sonata
MIKALOJUS KONSTANTINAS ČIURLIONIS: Eight Selected Préludes
SERGEJ PROKOFJEW: Sonata Nr. 6 in A major op. 82
The piano is a percussion instrument that wants to sing. The nightingale is a songbird that ‘strikes,’ as they say in German. The Lithuanian composer Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis dedicated one of his many piano pieces to the nightingale around 1900, in which he makes the bird sing and beat. How this can be done is demonstrated by a top pianist of our time: the only 31-year-old Lukas Geniušas, scion of a Lithuanian-Russian pianist dynasty, who won second prize at both the Chopin Competition in Warsaw and the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
