RECITAL
Merkin Hall
Young Artists Concert Series
Daniel Gebhardt - Piano
Beethoven - Sonata No. 16 in G major, Op. 31, No 1
Liszt - Sonata in B minor, S. 178
Toniako - YCA Composer-in Residence: New work for solo piano
Toniako - YCA Composer-in Residence: New work for solo piano
“Lebhardt is gifted with a delicate sensibility and perfect dexterity…Ravel’s Scarbo was a pianistic explosion in which fragments of melodies shone brightly like dazzling bells.” - Res Musica
"22-year-old Hungarian pianist Daniel Lebhardt won First Prize at the 2014 Young Concert Artists European Auditions in Paris, and then won YCA’s International Auditions in New York. Among his many other accolades, Mr. Lebhardt won First Prize at the Russian Music International Piano Competition in California, First Prize at the Citta di Gorizia International Piano Competition in Italy, First Prize at the Kosice International Piano Competition in Slovakia, and First Prize at the Carl Filtsch International Piano Competition in Romania. Most recently, he won the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) 2015 Auditions in London. Mr. Lebhardt has given recitals at the Bela Bartok Memorial House in Budapest, at the Senate House in London, and at the Musée du Louvre in Paris, and has also concertized in Hungary, Austria and Japan. As a result of winning the Royal Academy of Music’s prestigious Patron’s Award, Mr. Lebhardt gave his Wigmore Hall recital debut in May 2015."
Daniel Lebhardt Shows Daring Command in a New York Debut
Anthony Tommasini | March 2, 2016
Even before the 23-year-old Hungarian pianist Daniel Lebhardt began his New York debut recital on Tuesday night, I was impressed by the adventurous program he had chosen. For this performance at Merkin Concert Hall, Mr. Lebhardt, a winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, played an overlooked Beethoven sonata, followed by the premiere of a substantive piece by Tonia Ko, ending with a cornerstone of the repertory (by a fellow Hungarian): Liszt’s daunting Sonata in B minor.
It took imagination to open with Beethoven’s Sonata No. 16 in G (Op. 31, No. 1). While many of this composer’s works are run through with humor, this ebullient sonata can seem almost slapstick. The opening Allegro unfolds in bursts of spiraling runs and scale fragments punctuated by chords that are slightly, and deliberately, out of sync. Taking a daringly fast tempo, Mr. Lebhardt dispatched the music with scintillating crispness and conveyed its brash humor. But the breathless energy of his account also teased out the sonata’s heedless daring. He revealed the slyness at work in the Adagio, with its almost mock-elegant trills and swirling passagework. The final Rondo was an impish, brilliant delight.
Ms. Ko, a composer in residence with Young Concert Artists, wrote in a program note that her “Games of Belief” was inspired by Schumann’s fanciful piano works, especially his “Scenes From Childhood” suite. Her captivating score plays musical games of sound and color, often requiring Mr. Lebhardt to strike keys with one hand while, leaning into the piano, moving his other over the strings to create sounds that combined percussive thumps with sighing harmonics. The more
traditional elements involved rustling runs, skittish riffs and high tinkling figures that evoked
pagoda chimes, all splendidly played.
Liszt’s visionary Sonata in B minor is an epic fantasy lasting nearly 30 minutes, shifting from bursts of wildness to passages of profundity. Just playing it commandingly, as Mr. Lebhardt did, is difficult enough. He brought narrative sweep and youthful abandon to the piece, along with power, poetry and formidable technique. As an encore, he played Bartok's charming “Evening in Transylvania” from “10 Easy Piano Pieces,” the perfect cap to a demanding program.
Daniel Lebhardt Shows Daring Command in a New York Debut
Anthony Tommasini | March 2, 2016
Even before the 23-year-old Hungarian pianist Daniel Lebhardt began his New York debut recital on Tuesday night, I was impressed by the adventurous program he had chosen. For this performance at Merkin Concert Hall, Mr. Lebhardt, a winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, played an overlooked Beethoven sonata, followed by the premiere of a substantive piece by Tonia Ko, ending with a cornerstone of the repertory (by a fellow Hungarian): Liszt’s daunting Sonata in B minor.
It took imagination to open with Beethoven’s Sonata No. 16 in G (Op. 31, No. 1). While many of this composer’s works are run through with humor, this ebullient sonata can seem almost slapstick. The opening Allegro unfolds in bursts of spiraling runs and scale fragments punctuated by chords that are slightly, and deliberately, out of sync. Taking a daringly fast tempo, Mr. Lebhardt dispatched the music with scintillating crispness and conveyed its brash humor. But the breathless energy of his account also teased out the sonata’s heedless daring. He revealed the slyness at work in the Adagio, with its almost mock-elegant trills and swirling passagework. The final Rondo was an impish, brilliant delight.
Ms. Ko, a composer in residence with Young Concert Artists, wrote in a program note that her “Games of Belief” was inspired by Schumann’s fanciful piano works, especially his “Scenes From Childhood” suite. Her captivating score plays musical games of sound and color, often requiring Mr. Lebhardt to strike keys with one hand while, leaning into the piano, moving his other over the strings to create sounds that combined percussive thumps with sighing harmonics. The more
traditional elements involved rustling runs, skittish riffs and high tinkling figures that evoked
pagoda chimes, all splendidly played.
Liszt’s visionary Sonata in B minor is an epic fantasy lasting nearly 30 minutes, shifting from bursts of wildness to passages of profundity. Just playing it commandingly, as Mr. Lebhardt did, is difficult enough. He brought narrative sweep and youthful abandon to the piece, along with power, poetry and formidable technique. As an encore, he played Bartok's charming “Evening in Transylvania” from “10 Easy Piano Pieces,” the perfect cap to a demanding program.
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