Xi Zhai / Piano Recital

Joseph Haydn’s final and most significant sonata combines clarity and elegance with a subtle inner tension. Beneath the seemingly balanced surface, one can already sense a quiet urge for expression and change. With Beethoven’s final piano sonata, Op. 111, a different world opens up: the music becomes calmer, more expansive, more concentrated. Time seems to slow down, movement becomes sound – and the famous Arietta leads into an almost meditative sphere. Finally, Franz Liszt’s Sonata in B minor feels like a grand musical narrative. Themes emerge, transform and return in new guises. Power, drama and poetry combine to create a work of extraordinary intensity.