Yundi plays Mozart – Sonata Project 1

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Yundi plays Mozart – Sonata Project 1

Classical Music

Concert Hall, QPAC

1 Nov, 7:30pm

$59 - $179

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1 hour 30 minutes

(including interval, subject to change without notice)

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One of the most acclaimed classical pianists of this generation.

Internationally acclaimed pianist Yundi Li was propelled onto the international stage when he won first prize at the XIV Chopin International Piano Competition at the age of 18, becoming the youngest and first Chinese winner in the history of the renowned competition. Since then, he has been regarded as a leading exponent of Chopin’s music. In the autumn of 2014, the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, organizer of The International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, invited Yundi to be on the jury of the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in 2015, making him also the youngest juror of the competition. In recognition of his contribution to Polish culture, the Government of Poland presented a Gold Medal for Merit to Culture ‘Gloria Artis’ to Yundi in 2019.

Since June 2019, Yundi started his 100-recital world tour, called Yundi Sonata, including over 60 cities in China and 40 cities overseas, which marked the largest tour in his career. Yundi played the sonatas of Schubert, Chopin and Rachmaninoff. Following a brief pause from touring, Yundi returns to Australia playing the sonatas of Mozart, featuring Piano Sonata K331, K310, K475 and K457.

The brilliant young Chinese pianist has proved a technically astounding pianist who is by turns elegant and rambunctious, coolly expressive and white-hot.

- The New York Times

While Lang Lang is the ultimate extrovert pianist of the age, Yundi offers pianism of an altogether more inward kind. His playing is contained, consistent and structured, even frugal at times. He avoids display and demonstrative gestures – almost to a fault. The most striking thing about Yundi’s playing is the care he applies to his sound not his technique, although the one depends on the other.

- The Guardian

Sonata K.331 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1. Andante grazioso
2. Menuetto Allegretto
3. Allegretto

Sonata K.310 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1. Allegro maestoso
2. Andante cantabile con espressione
3. Presto

Interval

Fantasia K.475 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1. Adagio- Allegro - Andantino - Piu Allegro

Sonata K.457 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1. Molto allegro
2. Adagio
3. Allegro assai

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