Recital

MIKHAÏL PLETNEV
piano

GIDON KREMER
violin

GIEDRE DIRVANAUSKAITE
cello

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Violin and piano sonata No. 21 K. 304

FRANZ SCHUBERT
Violin and piano sonata op. 162 D. 574 “Grand Duo “

PIOTR ILITCH TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Trio op. 50 “To the memory of a great artist”

ABOUT THE SHOW

Mikhail Pletnev, Gidon Kremer and Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė reunite on the stage of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées for an intimate evening of nostalgia.

Winner of the Tchaikovsky Competition, the pianist Mikhail Pletnev is not only a leading ambassador of the Russian piano school, but also an outstanding interpreter of international music standards. After a long absence from the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, he returned to the Avenue Montaigne last season with a programme featuring Brahms and Dvořák. In 2023, he is back in good company with violinist Gidon Kremer and cellist Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė, a member of the Kremerata Baltica rightly founded by Gidon Kremer. They will open with Mozart’s sonata for violin and piano K. 304, the only one the musician composed in E minor during a period of mourning, followed by Schubert’s opus 162, also imbued with a nostalgic light. In the second half, they will perform Tchaikovsky’s trio ‘To the memory of a great artist’, a colossal piece in terms of its interpretative demands and its duration (almost 45 minutes), which brings this evening to a finale of sweet elegiac fragrance.

Coproduction Productions Internationales Albert Sarfati / Théâtre des Champs-Elysées