Weltklassik: Departure to Romanticism!

“Weltklassik – Departure to romanticism!”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata in F major op.10 no.2

Johannes Brahms
3 Intermezzi op.117

Robert Schumann
Abegg-Variations op.1    
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Karol Szymanowski
Mazurkas op. 50 no. 1-4

Fréderic Chopin
Mazurka op. 68 no.4
Nocturne op. 4 no.1
Ballade no. 3 op. 47

NATALIA EHWALD
Critics consistently emphasize the impressed and poetic play, the particularly beautiful tone and the great musical energy and intensity in the play of Natalia Ehwald. As she was 16 Natalia Ehwald started her studies at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Afterwards she graduated and made the concert diploma at the master class of Evgeni Koroliov in Hamburg. Already at an early age she won prizes at national and international competitions. She gave guest performances amongst others with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Warsaw, the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra and the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra. Radio recordings were produced with Deutschlandfunk, the NDR as well as the Polish radio. Concert tours directed her to Asia, North America and Europe in concert halls as the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Musikhalle Hamburg and to festivals as the Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker or Puplinge Classique Geneva. 2009 to 2011 she was assistant professor at the Conservatory in Hamburg, currently she lives in Berlin.

“Weltklassik – Departure to romanticism!”
The concert program ?Departure to romanticism? surrounds an epoch of about 125 years ? from the 1798 completed Beethoven sonata op. 10 number 2 to the 1924 originated mazurkas by the polish late impressionist Szymanowski. In between are the 3 Intermezzi op. 117 from the late work of Brahms ? called by himself ?lullabies of my sorrow? ? the opus 1 by the young Schumann, the Abegg-Variations, dedicated to a (fictitious) Mademoiselle Comtesse d?Abegg, as well as three pieces by Frederik Chopin, whose works can count as embodiment of romantic piano music. Actually we experience with this concert program not only the departure but also the heights and the farewell from one of the richest, variously shaped and most fascinating musical eras of the past.