Radio Klara
Chapeau Chopin
01/03/10 - 05/03/10
Two hundred years after Chopin’s birth, Klara considers this composer to be one of the great piano geniuses. The son of a French father and a Polish mother, Chopin was born on 1st March 1810. For Klara, 1st March 2010 is the perfect moment to begin ‘Chapeau Chopin’ (‘Hats off to Chopin’), a week during which the spotlight will fall on this magical figure.
CHAPEAU CHOPIN in ‘Espresso’ / Monday to Friday, from 6:00 until 9:00.
Every evening, Herr Seele, the ‘piano doctor’, will appear in the programme ‘Espresso’. This highly colourful character, well-known in the north of the country, owns a collection of 200 period pianos; this collection of historical pieces is world-renowned. He is the ideal person to dispel the misunderstandings which persist when it comes to Chopin’s music.
‘Salon Chopin’/ Monday to Friday, from 13:00 until 16:00.
The ‘Café Zimmermann’ will disappear this week, because, after the dinner, Nicole Van Opstal will invite us into the ‘Salon Chopin’, where you will be able to hear a discussion on the defining moments in the life and work of Chopin. You will learn everything about his Polish identity, the things that inspired him, his fragile health, his friendship with Franz Liszt, his admiration for Paganini and his relationship with the French writer George Sand.
Kurt Van Eeghem will not merely present an item in which the audience will get to share in little drawing room anecdotes, he will also go on a reporting mission to Poland with Katharina Smets in order to find out how the country has chosen to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Chopin’s birth. Particular attention will be paid to small passages made around 1925 which were taken from recordings of Chopin pieces and used as jingles by Polish Radio.
Clearly, there will also be a lot of beautiful music played by recognised artists, such as the best Chopin interpreters of today and yesteryear, accompanied by a commentary by Bart Tijskens.
Concerts / Monday to Friday, from 16:00 until 17:00.
In 2005, Abdel Rahman el Bacha played a series of Chopin recitals at Flagey in Brussels. He selected from the composer’s work a certain number of polonaises, mazurkas, rondos and nocturnes, as well as ecossaises, waltzes and contredanses, ending with the famous Funeral March. It is the recordings of these concerts that you will be now have the chance to listen to once more.
CHAPEAU CHOPIN in ‘Espresso’ / Monday to Friday, from 6:00 until 9:00.
Every evening, Herr Seele, the ‘piano doctor’, will appear in the programme ‘Espresso’. This highly colourful character, well-known in the north of the country, owns a collection of 200 period pianos; this collection of historical pieces is world-renowned. He is the ideal person to dispel the misunderstandings which persist when it comes to Chopin’s music.
‘Salon Chopin’/ Monday to Friday, from 13:00 until 16:00.
The ‘Café Zimmermann’ will disappear this week, because, after the dinner, Nicole Van Opstal will invite us into the ‘Salon Chopin’, where you will be able to hear a discussion on the defining moments in the life and work of Chopin. You will learn everything about his Polish identity, the things that inspired him, his fragile health, his friendship with Franz Liszt, his admiration for Paganini and his relationship with the French writer George Sand.
Kurt Van Eeghem will not merely present an item in which the audience will get to share in little drawing room anecdotes, he will also go on a reporting mission to Poland with Katharina Smets in order to find out how the country has chosen to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Chopin’s birth. Particular attention will be paid to small passages made around 1925 which were taken from recordings of Chopin pieces and used as jingles by Polish Radio.
Clearly, there will also be a lot of beautiful music played by recognised artists, such as the best Chopin interpreters of today and yesteryear, accompanied by a commentary by Bart Tijskens.
Concerts / Monday to Friday, from 16:00 until 17:00.
In 2005, Abdel Rahman el Bacha played a series of Chopin recitals at Flagey in Brussels. He selected from the composer’s work a certain number of polonaises, mazurkas, rondos and nocturnes, as well as ecossaises, waltzes and contredanses, ending with the famous Funeral March. It is the recordings of these concerts that you will be now have the chance to listen to once more.
‘Dans les loges’ (‘In de loge’) / Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, from 20:00 until 22:00.
Abdel Rahman el Bacha will also be a soloist in the concerts held this week by Fred Brouwers. On 2 March, he will play Chopin’s Krakowiak and the Andante spianato with the Brussels Philharmonic, conducted by Jan Latham-Koenig.
On Monday 1st, Daniel Barenboim will be performing as a soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Asher Fish in two Chopin concertos. On Thursday 4 March, Paolo Giacometti will give a recital on an Erard piano. He has chosen to perform 24 Preludes, Op 28 and the Ballades nos 1 to 4 by Chopin.Links
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