The Musikàmera Season continues with an exceptional concert hosted for the occasion in the Sala Grande of the Teatro La Fenice: the protagonist is the Russian musician Michail Pletnev, one of the greatest living legends of the piano, with a recital that offers listeners pages by Frédéric Chopin and Alexander Skrjabin. Brilliant pianist, sought-after conductor and great composer, Pletnev is an artist who defies any conventional classification. The evening’s programme will be entirely dedicated to the ‘prelude’, a musical genre that found its autonomy in the 19th century, freeing itself from its traditional introductory function and acquiring, in its fulminating brevity, a formal freedom that made it one of the favourite compositions of Romantic pianism. When, in the early 19th century, the two books of the Well-Tempered Clavier composed by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1722 were finally published, the idea of the twenty-four pieces in twenty-four keys struck the imagination of both composers and public alike. Fryderyk Chopin’s 24 Preludes Op. 28 were often, over the years and centuries to come, referred to as ‘worthy successors’ to Bach’s Preludes and remain one of the most celebrated masterpieces of piano literature.
