Artist:
- Sara Costa: Piano
Chopin – Blumenfeld: Two visions of Romanticism
From Romanticism to the threshold of the twentieth century.
A dialogue that spans eras and sensibilities, bringing together the formal elegance and lyrical passion of Frédéric Chopin with the visionary force and bold virtuosity of Felix Blumenfeld.
In Chopin’s Sonata, Op. 58, Romanticism manifests itself in its fullness: heroic impulses, profound melancholy, and an entirely interior cantability.
Blumenfeld, his ideal heir, takes up this legacy and takes it in new directions: in his two pieces—Nocturne Fantasia, Op. 20, and Sonata Fantasia, Op. 46—one senses the ferment of change, where form expands, harmony pushes to its limits, and the piano becomes an instrument of psychological and timbral exploration.
A musical experience that illuminates the transition between two centuries, between the end of one world and the beginning of a new sensibility.
- F. Blumenfeld
Nocturne Fantasy op.20
Sonata Fantasy op.46 - F. Chopin
Sonata No. 3 in B minor op.58
Sara Costa, Piano