The LA Phil’s 2022/23 Colburn Celebrity Recital Series Features

RENÉE FLEMING & JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET; YO-YO MA, EMANUEL AX & LEONIDAS KAVAKOS; SEONG-JIN CHO; EMANUEL AX; HILARY HAHN; HÉLÈNE GRIMAUD; SIR ANDRÁS SCHIFF; ELECTRIC FIELDS; VÍKINGUR ÓLAFSSON AND IGOR LEVIT

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LOS ANGELES (September 23, 2022) – This season, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 2022/23 Colburn Celebrity Recital series at Walt Disney Concert Hall presents 10 one-night-only performances from world class instrumental virtuosi to stellar operatic voices, from across the globe.

The 2022/23 Colburn Celebrity Recital series begins with a piano recital by Sir András Schiff on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, at 8 pm, followed by an evening featuring soprano Renée Fleming and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet together in a collaborative recital, on Sunday, October 16, 2022, at 7:30 pm. Then, on Tuesday, November 15, 2022, at 8 pm, the world premiere of an immersive, multimedia staged journey, Electric Fields, with live, interactive projection, costumes and lights. Electric Fields’ music is by Hildegard von Bingen, Barbara Strozzi and Francesca Caccini, reimagined by David Chalmin and Bryce Dessner (of The National), alongside new works by Chalmin and Dessner, performed by pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque and soprano Barbara Hannigan, and directed and designed by Netia Jones.

In 2023, the series continues with pianist Seong-Jin Cho in a recital ranging from Handel and Brahms to Schumann and Gubaidulina on Sunday, January 8, at 7:30 pm. The next recital on Saturday, January 28, at 2pm brings together Emmanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma and Leonidas Kavakos on our stage for a special evening of Beethoven. Ax then performs a solo recital on Wednesday, February 1, at 8 pm.

March features a recital by pianist Igor Levit, playing the Beethoven piano sonatas on Sunday March 12, at 7:30 pm. Later that month, violinist Hilary Hahn offers her take on solo Bach pieces, on Wednesday, March 15, at 8 pm. We round out the series in spring with Hélène Grimaud, performing Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms, Wednesday, April 19, at 8 pm, and lastly, Víkingur Ólafsson taking the stage for works by Mozart and his contemporaries, on Wednesday, May 10, at 8 pm.

More information and tickets for the LA Phil’s 2022/23 Colburn Celebrity Recital series be found at laphil.com.

PROGRAM DETAILS

Tuesday, October 11, 8PM

Sir András Schiff, piano

Program to be announced from the stage.

Sunday, October 16, 7:30PM

Renée Fleming, soprano
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

Program to be announced.

Tuesday, November 15, 8PM

ELECTRIC FIELDS
Barbara Hannigan, soprano
Katia and Marielle Labèque, pianos
Netia Jones, director & designer
Lightmap, projection design
David Chalmin, live electronics
Guillaume Loubère, sound engineer

David CHALMIN/Bryce DESNER  Electric Fields (world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from Ellen and Arnold Zetcher)

Sunday, January 8, 2023, 7:30PM

Seong-Jin Cho, piano

HANDEL  Suite No. 5, HWV 430
Sofia GUBAIDULINA  Chaconne (1965)
BRAHMS  Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24
BRAHMS  Klavierstücke, Op. 76 (movements 1, 2, 4, 5)

1. SCHUMANN Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13

Saturday, January 28, 2023, 2PM

Emanuel Ax, piano
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Yo-Yo Ma, cello

BEETHOVEN (arr. Shai WOSNER)  Symphony No. 4
BEETHOVEN  Piano Trio in B-flat, Op. 97, “Archduke”

Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 8PM

Emanuel Ax, piano

SCHUBERT  Piano Sonata in A major, D. 664
SCHUBERT-LISZT  Four Songs
   Ständchen
   Liebesbotschaft
   Der Müller und der Bach
   Horch, horch! Die Lerch
LISZT  Années de pèlerinage I, S. 160
   No 6. Vallée d’Obermann
SCHUBERT  Piano Sonata in B-flat major, D. 960

Sunday, March 12, 2023, 7:30PM

Igor Levit, piano

BEETHOVEN  Piano Sonatas, Opp. 109, 110, 111

Wednesday, March 15, 2023, 8PM

Hilary Hahn, violin

Solo Bach

Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 8PM

Hélène Grimaud, piano

Works by Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms

Wednesday, May 10, 2023, 8PM

Víkingur Ólafsson, piano

Mozart and his contemporaries
GALUPPI  Piano Sonata No. 9 in F minor

1. Andante spiritoso

MOZART  Rondo in F major, K. 494
CPE BACH  Rondo for Keyboard in D Minor, Wq 61/4
CIMAROSA (arr. ÓLAFSSON)  Keyboard Sonata No. 42 in D minor
MOZART  Fantasia for Piano No. 3 in D minor, K. 397
MOZART  Rondo in D major, K. 485
CIMAROSA (arr. ÓLAFSSON)  Keyboard Sonata No. 55 in A minor
HAYDN Sonata for Piano in B minor, No. 47, Hob XVI:32

1. Allegro moderato
2. Menuetto – Trio (Minore)
3. Finale. Presto

MOZART  Kleine Gigue in G major, K. 574
MOZART  Sonata for Piano No. 16 in C major, K. 545

1. Allegro
2. Andante
3. Rondo
4. Allegretto

MOZART  String Quintet No. 3 in G minor, K. 516

1. III. Adagio

GALUPPI  Piano Sonata No. 34 in C minor

1. Larghetto

MOZART  Sonata for Piano No. 14 in C minor, K. 457

1. Molto allegro
2. Adagio
3. Allegro assai

MOZART  Adagio for Piano in B minor, K. 540
MOZART (Transcr. LISZT) Ave verum corpus, K. 618

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