Alexandre Tharaud opens this recital with his breathtaking original transcription of the Adagietto from Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. His take on Schubert’s Impromptus gets to “the heart of the beauties and abysses of this music” (The Guardian). Tharaud’s assured interpretation of Rameau’s Nouvelles suites, originally composed for the harpsichord, “makes you aware that there is as much intensity in Rameau as there is in Ravel” (Gramophone)—and it is Ravel’s impressionistic and wonderfully paced Miroirs suite that rounds out Tharaud’s characteristically insightful return to Zankel Hall.

Program

G. MAHLER Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp Minor (transcr. Alexandre Tharaud)

SCHUBERT Four Impromptus, D. 899

RAMEAU Selections from Suite in A Minor from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin
·· I. Allemande
·· III. Sarabande
·· V. Fanfarinette
·· VII. Gavotte

RAVEL Miroirs