David Kaplan, piano
Argento New Music Project
Michel Galante, conductor

PROGRAM

Concerto for piano and 14 instruments (1986) NY PREMIERE
Aldo Clementi
David Kaplan, piano

Overture, Scherzo, Finale (1841)
Robert Schumann arr. Kimmy Szeto
arrangement for chamber orchestra WORLD PREMIERE​

Intermission​

Excerpts from New Dances of the League of David (2014)
miniatures for piano commisions and performed by David Kaplan

‘Mirrors and Sidesteps’
Michael Gandolfi​

Davidsbündlertänze Op 6, No 1 ‘Lebhaft’
Robert Schumann

II Quietly
Samuel Carl Adams

Morse Code Fantasy
Augusta Read Thomas

Davidsbündlertänze Op 6, No 3 ‘Etwas hahnbüchen’
Robert Schumann

***
Marcos Balter

XVI ‘Mit gutem Humor, un poco lol ma con serioso vibes’
Caroline Shaw​

Davidsbündlertänze Op 6, No 18 “Ganz zum Überfluss meinte Eusebius noch Folgendes, dabei sprang aber viel Seligkeit aus seinen Augen.”
Robert Schumann

David Kaplan, piano​

Une relecture des Kinderszenen de Robert Schumann (2020) US PREMIERE
Tristan Murail
for flute, cello and piano​​​​​​

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

When Daniel Barenboim said “Schumann has a concept of music, but not really a concept of sound,” he was referring to works like Syrinx, which, in place of music, simply has three signs on the score : ***, or works like Humoresque, which includes notated musical lines that the performer is instructed not to actually play, but instead to hear only in their mind. In short, Schumann’s music raises more questions than it answers. It’s because of this that many contemporary composers have been tempted to step into his fertile creative ideas, ideas that take tremendous pleasure in free musical thought, invention, and fantasy, often breaking out of the world of sound into a world of inspired abstractions. This concert focuses on contemporary composers who responded to Schumann’s provocations: Aldo Clementi, Augusta Read Thomas, Caroline Shaw, Michael Gandolfi, Samuel Carl Adams, Marcos Balter, and Tristan Murail.​