Radu Lupu, piano

Presenting

RADU LU PU horowitz piano series

january 17, 2013 Morse Recital Hall 路 Thursday at 8 pm 路 Music by Schubert, Franck, and Debussy

Robert Blocker, Dean

ra d u lup u, p ia no Horowitz Piano Series · Boris Berman, Artistic Director January 17, 2013 • Sprague Memorial Hall

Franz Schubert 1797–1828

Four Impromptus, Op. posth. 142, D. 935 No. 1 in F minor No. 2 in A-flat major No. 3 in B-flat major No. 4 in F minor

César Franck 1822–1890

Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue

intermission

Claude Debussy 1862–1918

Préludes Deuxième Livre Brouillards: Modéré Feuilles mortes: Lent et mélancolique La puerta del Vino: Mouvement de Habanera “Les fées sont d’exquises danseuses”: Rapide et léger Bruyères: Calme Général Lavine: Dans le style et le mouvement d’un Cakewalk La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune: Lent Ondine: Scherzando Hommage à S. Pickwick Esq. P. P. M. P. C.: Grave Canope: Très calme et doucement triste Les tierces alternées: Modérément animé Feux d’artifice: Modérément animé

As a courtesy to the performers and audience, turn off cell phones and pagers. Please do not leave the hall during selections. Photography or recording of any kind is prohibited.

About the Artist

Radu Lupu is firmly established as one of the most important musicians of his generation and is widely acknowledged as a leading interpreter of the works of Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, and Schubert. Since winning the prestigious Van Cliburn (1966) and Leeds Piano Competitions (1969), Mr. Lupu has regularly performed as soloist and recitalist in the musical capitals and major festivals of Europe and the United States.

Radu Lupu’s first major American appearances were in 1972 with the Cleveland Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim and with the Chicago Symphony led by Carlo Maria Giulini. Concerts with the New York Philharmonic soon followed, and Mr. Lupu has since appeared with all of the foremost American orchestras.

In the 2012–13 season Mr Lupu’s concerto engagements will include the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Colin Davis (for his 85th birthday celebrations), the Luxembourg Orchestra (Emanuel Krivine), Santa Cecilia Orchestra (David Afkham), Chicago Symphony (Riccardo Muti), St. Louis Symphony (David Robertson), Boston Symphony (Christoph von Dohnanyi), Orchestre de Paris (Thomas Hengelbrock), Berlin RSB (Marek Janowski), and the Mozart Orchestra Bologna (Claudio Abbado). He will continue his cycle of the Beethoven piano concertos at the new concert hall in Helsinki with the Finnish Chamber Orchestra (Jukka-Pekka Saraste). His recitals will include Paris, Geneva, Genova, Turin, several cities in the U.S. including

Carnegie Hall, Aix-en-Provence, Vicenza, and the Brescia and Bergamo Festival. He will undertake his tenth tour of Japan, and will also perform in Seoul.

Mr. Lupu has made more than twenty recordings for London/Decca, including the complete Beethoven concertos with the Israel Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta, the complete Mozart violin and piano sonatas with Szymon Goldberg, and numerous solo recordings of Beethoven, Brahms, and Schubert. His London/Decca releases of Schubert’s Sonatas, D. 960 and 664, won a Grammy Award in 1995, and Schumann’s Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana, and Humoresque won an Edison Award in 1995.

Born in Romania in 1945, Mr. Lupu began studying the piano at the age of six with Lia Busuioseanu. He made his public debut with a complete program of his own music at twelve, continuing his studies for several years with Florica Muzicescu and Cella Delavrance. In 1961 he won a scholarship to the Moscow State Conservatory, where he studied with Heinrich Neuhaus and his son, Stanislav Neuhaus. During his seven years at the Moscow Conservatory he won first prize in the 1967 Enescu International Competition in addition to the Van Cliburn and Leeds competitions. In 1989 and again in 2006, he was awarded the prestigious Abbiati prize given by the Italian Critics’ Association. He is also the recipient of the 2006 Premio Internazionale Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Award.

Radu Lupu is managed exclusively by Opus 3 Artists in North America.

Upcoming Events

Wendy Sharp & Friends

Mozart’s Birthday

january 20 Morse Recital Hall | Sun | 4 pm Faculty Artist Series Music by Mozart, Honegger, and Dvořák.

With Marka Gustavsson, viola; Mimi Hwang, cello; and Melvin Chen, piano.

Free Admission

january 24 Morse Recital Hall | Thu | 5:30 pm Yale in New York preview concert Music by Mozart’s musical friends, including Bach, Beethoven, and Kernis.

Free Admission

From Rome to Russia ˇ Piano Quartets Mozart & Dvorák january 23 Morse Recital Hall | Wed | 8 pm Faculty Artist Series Ani Kavafian, violin; Ettore Causa, viola; Ole Akahoshi, cello; and Peter Frankl, piano.

Free Admission

january 25 Woolsey Hall | Fri | 8 pm Yale Philharmonia Shinik Hahm, conductor; with the Handsome Dans Trombone Quartet. Music by Koetsier, Respighi, and Tchaikovsky.

Free Admission

Emanuel Ax, piano february 6 Morse Recital Hall | Wed | 8 pm Horowitz Piano Series Music of Beethoven, Schoenberg, and Chopin.

Tickets $20–$30, Students $10–$15

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Robert Blocker, Dean

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