Name: Time travel
Start: 2024-11-03T19:00:00
Location: Philharmonie Mercatorhalle

Duisburger Philharmoniker

It is a bit like a homecoming when the world-class pianist Haiou Zhang comes to Duisburg for a piano extra. One of his first concerts was not far from here, in Oberhausen - he was still a student at the time. Today, Haiou Zhang is praised in the specialist press for both his sharp analytical mind and the expressive intensity of his playing. He demonstrates his immense skill with a program that not only shows the most diverse facets of piano literature, but also exciting connections between eras. The program begins with "Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue", a fascinating work by Johann Sebastian Bach: without regard to conventions and full of excessive chromaticism. And he was in turn a role model for Claude Debussy, who refers to Johann Sebastian Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier" in his Préludes, some of which Haiou Zhang plays. Or Ludwig van Beethoven, who initially followed in the footsteps of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with his piano works, but then set out on his own shores and took the piano sonata genre into completely new dimensions. Haiou Zhang plays his piano recital on a special instrument, because "certain timbres and nuances that I want can only be realized on a Bechstein."