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Program: 00:03 Tsotne Zedginidze, Fantaisie-Impromptu Franz Schubert, Four impromptus, Op. 90, D. 899 13:52 No. 1 in C minor (Allegro molto moderato) 23:40 No. 2 in E flat major (Allegro) 28:47 No. 3 in G flat major (Andante) 35:47 No. 4 in A flat major (Allegretto) 1:04:49 Tsotne Zedginidze, Dedication to Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel Maurice Ravel, Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55 1:11:45 I. Ondine 1:19:42 II. Le Gibet 1:25:25 III. Scarbo 1:39:31 Tsotne Zedginidze, Prelude No. 2 *********************************************** Cast Tsotne Zedginidze — Pianist Venue: Verbier Church (Verbier, Switzerland) Broadcast date: Wednesday, July 19, 2023 Program notes The prodigious Tsotne Zedginidze makes his anticipated return to the Verbier Festival for its 30th anniversary edition! The young pianist regales us, as ever, with a daring program made up of repertoire favorites as well as some of his own pieces. The prolific Tsotne opens the program by sharing his own new Fantaisie-Impromptu with the Verbier audience, before taking on the four beloved Impromptus of Schubert’s Op. 90, featuring some of the composer’s stormiest and most heart-rending passages. After the pause, he performs another new work—a tribute to Debussy and Ravel—and then moves on to the monumental challenge of Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit, one of the most notoriously demanding works ever written for the piano (by design—Ravel set out to surpass the difficulty of Balakirev’s Islamey).
