The Érard Grand Piano Series: Bart van Oort

The Érard Grand Piano Series

Season 2 ~ Episode 7  

Enjoy a profound rendition on our Érard grand piano by star pianist Bart van Oort in the unique atmosphere of TenClub’s Mayer Manor in Amsterdam.

The Érard

The sound of TenClub’s 1892 Érard, restored with great precision and love, is original and unparalleled. The music as Bart van Oort will play it on the Érard is as the composers once intended it to be played. After all, not only were the ‘timeless’ pieces created on the instrument, but all the greats of classical music actually also played on an Érard grand piano: Chopin, Mendelssohn, Verdi, Liszt, Ravel, Fauré, Wagner, Debussy and Diepenbrock, to name but a few.

About Bart van Oort

Star pianist Bart van Oort studied piano and fortepiano at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. In 1986 he won the first prize as well as the audience prize at the International Fortepiano Competition in Bruges before receiving a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Historical Performance Practice in 1993 at Cornell University (USA), where he studied with Malcolm Bilson. He has since performed, and given lectures and masterclasses all over the world. Bart van Oort has made over eighty recordings of chamber music and solo repertory.

Bart van Oort has a soft spot for Russian composers from the 19th, hence the theme of his program:

Russian Nocturnes of the 19th Century

Genary Osipovich Korganov 1858-1890

Nocturne op 18 no. 1 in Db major (1887-94)
Nocturne op 18 no. 2 in C# minor (1887-94)

César Cui 1835-1918

Nocturne in F# major from 3 Morcaux op 8 no. 1 (1878)

Vasily Kalafati 1869-1942

Nocturne op 5 in Bb min La Nuit à Goursouf (1900)

Break

Anton Arensky 1861-1906
Nocturne in Db major, op 36 no. 3 (1894)

Sergej Rachmaninov 1873-1943
Nocturne in F major, WoO no. 2 (1887)

Mili Balakirev 1837-1910
Nocturne no 1 in Bb minor (1898)

Alexandr Borodin 1833-1887
Nocturne in Gb major, from Petite Suite, no. 7 (1880-85)

Felix Blumenfeld 1863-1931
Nocturne in E major op 6 no 1 Une Nuit à Magaratch (1885)

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