Nino Gvetadze makes her debut at Lucerne Festival!
November 20th 2012 http://www.lucernefestival.ch/en/
The young Georgian pianist Nino Gvetadze loves live performance—and she knows exactly when a concert is especially good: “When I’m onstage, I plunge deep into the music. I try to bring my listeners along with me on this journey, to tell them the stories that each composer has embodied in their work, and to let them forget about their everyday concerns. Everything goes perfectly when I have the feeling that we’re all breathing together.”
In 2008 Gvetadze won Second Prize, the Critics’ Award, and the Audience Award at the prestigious Franz Liszt Competition in Budapest, and in 2010 she garnered the Borletti Buitoni Trust Award. Since then she has also collaborated with such conductors as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, John Axelrod, and Michel Tabachnik and has played a recital in Bayreuth on Franz Liszt’s own piano. It was to Liszt, the epitome of the virtuoso, that she devoted her first CD, which appeared in the composer’s anniversary year of 2011, and of course Liszt will be part of her program in Lucerne.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata in G major, Op. 31 No. 1
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
“Gretchen am Spinnrade” S. 558 (Franz Schubert)
“Liebeslied” (“Widmung”) S. 566 (Robert Schumann)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
“Voiles” and “La Cathédrale engloutie” from Preludes, Book I
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
“Pictures at an Exhibition”
