Kicking off the month of May, Tamara Stefanovich returns to Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with her newly created ‘20 Sonatas’ programme on 6 May recently reviewed as “a remarkable feat of sustained pianism” by Andrew Clements in The Guardian. The programme includes sonatas by J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Soler, Scarlatti, Charles Ives, Eisler, Bartók as well as sonatas by Hindemith, Janáček and Ustvolskaya. The entire concert consists of three one-hour recitals with two intermissions: Masterpieces of the Baroque meet groundbreaking works of the 20th century. Bach is seamlessly followed by Busoni, Scarlatti by Scriabin and Soler by Hindemith.
On 24 May Tamara Stefanovich performs an eclectic solo recital programme at SWR Schwetzinger Festspiele Festival in which she contrasts Ligeti’s Musica Ricercata with Bagatelle by Beethoven, followed by various etudes by Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Ligeti as well as pieces by Vassos Nicolaou and Oliver Messiaen.
Tamara Stefanovich’s May concludes with a concert at Kölner Philharmonie on 28 May, in which she plays six selected etudes by Ligeti as part of a Ligeti portrait concert. The second part of the concert is performed by the Alinde Quartet and organist Dominik Susteck with further works by Ligeti.
