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Debussy & Ravel's Bolero


Location: Heinz Hall
Friday, May 4, 2012 at 8:00 PM  
Saturday, May 5, 2012 at 8:00 PM  
Ticket Information:
Tickets start at $20


Artists

Manfred Honeck, conductor
Lise de la Salle, piano
Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh ,

Program

Claude Debussy:    Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Lili Boulanger:    Psalm 130
Maurice Ravel:    Piano Concerto in G major
Maurice Ravel:    Bolero

About This Performance

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Revel in two favorites by French composers Debussy and Ravel – Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and Bolero. Experience young French pianist Lise de la Salle make her PSO debut with the colorful Piano Concerto by Ravel. Ms. de la Salle recently received the Diapason d'Or and was named "Editors Choice" in Gramophone Magazine for her new album -- Liszt: Lise de la Salle. (Please see below for other praise of her new album.) 2011-2012 subscribers save 15% on tickets to this special concert.


Praise for Pianist Lise de la Salle's New Album -- Liszt: Lise de la Salle

"de la Salle gives us a Liszt recital of astonishing strength, poetry and, for one so young, musical maturity. Whether in fist-shaking defiance, radiance or baleful resignation, she is superbly responsive to Liszt's rhetoric in the Dante Sonata. Here, as elsewhere, everything is given time to "speak, to weep and sing and sigh" (part of Liszt's own definition of a true virtuoso)."
- Gramophone Magazine

"More satisfying, overall is another Liszt recital, on the Naïve label, from the gifted young French pianist Lise de la Salle, who uses her formidable technique and poetic instincts to illuminate her selections from within."
- The Chicago Tribune

"...de la Salle brings a raw intensity and dramatic power that is compelling."
- The Classical Review


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