Alexandra Dovgan | piano
The assured talent of young pianist Alexandra Dovgan who is equally at home with Bach or Rachmaninoff and Scriabin.
Bach Partita No. 6 BWV 830
Rachmaninoff Variations on a theme by Corelli op. 49
Scriabin Sonata-Fantaisy No. 2 op. 19
Young audience workshops Les Ludophones, c’est quoi ? (4-10 years old)
At the age of sixteen, Grigory Sokolov won the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow. If he was a prodigy, what then of his protégée Alexandra Dovgan, who was already “well beyond” musical competitions at that age? The young Russian pianist returns in the company of Bach and two of her compatriots. After the final partita of a collection which Bach’s first biographer, Forkel, described as creating “a great stir in the musical world [as] such excellent compositions for the harpsichord had never before been seen or heard”, the virtuoso will tackle Rachmaninoff’s 1931 Variations on a Theme of Corelli. The morning concert will end by plunging us into Scriabin’s world, as his Sonata-Fantasy opus 19 leads us to the seashore.
Coréalisation Jeanine Roze Production | Théâtre des Champs-Elysées