Pianist LIN CHEN, in "Weltklassik - Best of Beethoven!"

Please come to our next Weltklassik piano concert, all-Beethoven
            featuring
    Pianist LIN CHEN, in "Weltklassik – Best of Beethoven!"
    Thursday April 16th 7:00 PM
    Minzer/Schreuder Residence
    8 Broadmoor Hills Drive, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80906

With January and Anna Zassimova, February with Leon Gurvitch, and then
March with Katherina Treutler, Classically Alive audiences are already experiencing
the highest quality of music-making.  One may take for granted that the all-Beethoven
presented by Lin Chen will not disappoint.

Beethoven is a composer that hardly needs selling, but let me say that with pianist
Lin Chen we are speaking of a Beethoven specialist, her having played much of
Beethoven's solo and concerto repertoire, including some of his most challenging
works such as the Diabelli Variations.

Please visit the following links and see for yourself…
    Lin Chen in Beethoven Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Orchestra
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CPmH27iC7U
    Lin Chen in Beethoven Diabelli Variations
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HX9ncsv7y4

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    Light Refreshments Included
      General Admission is $25; $15 for students; free for 13 and under    
    RSVP is required, Space Is Limited

Reservations may be made through contacting Abe Minzer via email or phone at: aminzer@comcast.net, 719-229-2239
   OR via
    http://Weltklassik.de (Click American flag icon, and then choose location, Colorado Springs).

For more information, please visit:

http://classicallyalive.com/ClassicallyAlive/Next_Weltklassik_Concert_Bios.html

Please try to make this one! –
Abe Minzer, Director/Classically Alive
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Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 07.00 pm in Colorado, Colorado Springs

"Weltklassik – Best of Beethoven!"

LIN CHEN, Piano       

"Weltklassik – Best of Beethoven!"
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

Six Variations F-Major op.34

Sonata no.7 D-Major op.10 Nr.3
1. Presto
2. Largo e mesto
3. Menuetto
4. Rondo

*** INTERMISSION

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

Sonata no. 14 cis-Minor op. 27 Nr. 2 (“The Moonlight”)
1. Adagio sostenuto
2. Allegretto
3. Presto agitato

Sonata no. 27 e-Minor op. 90
1.Mit Lebhaftigkeit und durchaus mit Empfindung und Ausdruck
2.Nicht zu geschwind und sehr singbar vorgetragen

LIN CHEN
Pianist Lin Chen was born in 1981 in Tianjin, China. She began her piano studies at the age of four with Prof. Yang Ling, and subsequently studied with Ling Yuan and Alexey Sokolov, graduating with top honors. Following her studies in China, Lin became the youngest teacher at Tianjin Conservatory, and subsequently moved to Germany where she studied with Bernd Goetzke at the Hochschule für Musik in Hannover. She has received several prizes at international competitions, including the Hong Kong International Piano Competition and the Oslo Grieg Competition, as well as a scholarship from Yamaha in Japan. Lin Chen has performed in China, Germany, and Japan, and has been featured on TV, most recently at the famous Mozartiade in Augsburg, Germany. A much sought-after artist, Lin Chen performs regularly throughout Europe and Asia, both as a recitalist as well as a soloist with orchestra.

"Weltklassik – Best of Beethoven!"
Beethoven's thirty-two piano sonatas are among the most important of their genre. Many of the sonatas were dedicated either to patrons or to lovely young ladies who were usually Beethoven's own students and were closely connected to the composer. On tonight's program, the three sonatas Op. 10 were dedicated to Beethoven's pupil Countess Margarete von Browne, the two-movement Sonata Op. 90 was dedicated to Count Moritz von Lichnowsky, and the highly romantic "Moonlight" sonata Op.27, No. 2 was dedicated to the composer's pupil Countess Giulietta Giuccardi, in whom Beethoven was in love. One of the most famous pieces in the piano literature, the Sonata Op. 27, No. 2 was posthumously given the title "Moonlight" by Ludwig Rellstab, the well-known German poet and music critic, who described the sonata's opening movement as being like moonlight flickering across Lake Lucerne.