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Tenri Cultural Institute
43A W 13th St
Greenwich Village
New York
New York
10011
United States
Programme
Robert Schumann – 4 Marches, Op.76
Robert Schumann – Etudes after Paganini Caprices, Op.3
Robert Schumann – Toccata, Op.7
Robert Schumann – 6 Concert Etudes after Paganini Caprices, Op.10
Performers
Ian Hobson – piano
Programme Note
The immensely versatile and internationally lauded pianist and conductor Ian Hobson, whose playing has been described by Gramophone as “intensely alive to expressive nuance, textural clarity and elastic shaping,” will present the seventh concert in his popular Robert Schumann recital series: Marches and Etudes.
The Schumann Cycle is devoted to the composer’s entire solo piano and chamber works with piano. On May 3, 2024, Mr.
Hobson will continue his Schumann Cycle with a solo piano program named Counterpoints at the Tenri Cultural Institute. On May 10, 2024, Mr. Hobson will be joined by violinist Andrés Cárdenes and Jun Iwasaki, violist Csaba Erdélyi, and cellist Ko Iwasaki in the first chamber music concert of the Schumann Cycle series, entitled Schumann for Three Four and Five.
Reviewing Mr. Hobson's Variations program in his latest Schumann Cycle concert, September 2023, Jeffrey Williams wrote: "Mr. Hobson made a compelling case for them, as he did with the Chopin set. He pulled off both sets with confident artistry, for which he deserves our admiration and gratitude." (New York Concert Review, October 1, 2023)
Harry Rolnick of Concertonet.com commented on Mr. Hobson's Humoreske in his April 2023 Schumann Cycle concert Love and Nature II, “This was also Ian Hobson at his greatest. Not monumental pianism, not pictures of corteges or romance. Rather, Mr. Hobson was able to tie each short section together, as if foreordained.” (April 21, 2023)
