The ACF DC welcomes renowned Austrian pianist Gottlieb Wallisch for the concert “Pianistic Impressions from Vienna”.
This piano recital features a remarkable selection of works by four distinguished Austrian composers. Alongside the “classics” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) and Franz Schubert (1797-1828) are two Viennese composers who found exile in the USA: Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951), the groundbreaking innovator of modern music, and Wilhelm Grosz (1894-1939), one of the most versatile talents known for blending classical and jazz influences.
The event will be followed by a wine reception.
PROGRAM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Rondo in a-minor, K.511
Arnold Schönberg / arr. Ferruccio Busoni | Klavierstück, op. 11/2
Franz Schubert | Four Impromptus, op. post. 142, D.935 | III. Tema con variazioni
Wilhelm Grosz | Symphonische Variationen über ein eigenes Thema, op. 9
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Vienna, Gottlieb Wallisch first appeared on the concert platform when he was seven years old, and at the age of twelve made his debut in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein. Since then, Wallisch has received invitations to the world’s most prestigious concert halls and festivals, including Carnegie Hall in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, the Festivals of Lucerne and Salzburg and the Singapore Arts Festival.
Conductors with whom he has performed as a soloist include Giuseppe Sinopoli, Sir Neville Marriner, Dennis Russell Davies, Kirill Petrenko, Louis Langrée, Lawrence Foster, Christopher Hogwood, Martin Haselboeck and Bruno Weil. Orchestras he has performed with include the Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna Symphony Orchestras, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, the Festival Strings Lucerne, the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra in Budapest, the Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra in Los Angeles and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra.
In 2012, Steinway & Sons added his name to their roster of Steinway Artists. In 2010, Gottlieb Wallisch became the youngest professor at the Geneva University for Music; the Berlin University of Arts (UdK Berlin) named him professor of piano in 2016.
His recording catalogue features a vast repertoire, ranging from the Complete Beethoven-Piano Concerti on period instruments to the ongoing series “20th Century Foxtrots” for “Grand Piano”, which presents forgotten piano music from the Jazz-era of the 1920s and -30s. Re-discovering the works of ostracized composers is another field of Gottlieb Wallisch’s artistic work, documented by world premiere recordings of Jaromír Weinberger, Hans Gál, Eric Zeisl and presently Wilhelm Grosz.
Images © Uwe Noelke