Intimate with Alexandra Dariescu
World star Alexandra Dariescu as close and intimate as only Risør can offer. Come hear what happens when technique and artistry merge into a higher unity.
About the concert
Something magical always happens when Alexandra sits down at the piano, and with the concert A Child's Dream she takes us into a world she herself has created.
We encounter composers like Amy Beach, Florence Price, Germaine Tailleferre and Carl Filtsch, the child prodigy who died just 14 years old, hailed by Chopin as the greatest talent he had ever heard.
Finally, Alexandra gives us a taste of The Nutcracker. A piece very close to her heart because her modern version "The Nutcracker and I" has become a modern classical hit.
Additional Content
Concert program
A Child's Dream
- Emmy Schäfer Klein (c. 1860): The Child's Dream, Op. 8, No. 1
- Johann Seb. Bach (1685–1750): Prelude in B minor, trans. from Prelude and Fugue in E minor
- Missy Mazzoli (b. 1980): A Map of Laughter
- James Lee III (b. 1975): Humble Birth
- Amy Beach (1867–1944): Harlequin, Op. 25, No. 6 from Children's Carnival
- Florence Price (1887–1953): The Goblin and the Mosquito
- Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959): O Polichinelo, from A Prole do bebê, Bk. 1
- Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849): Selections from Preludes, Op. 28
- Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983): Romance
- Leokadiya Kashperova (1872–1940): Songs Without Words, No. 5
- Carl Filtsch (1830–1845): Mazurka in E-flat minor, No. 3
- Tudor Ciortea (1903–1982): Romanian Dance
- Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–1893): Selections from Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71
Artists
Alexandra Dariescu
Alexandra Dariescu
Piano