Richard Goode
Friday, March 9 | 8:00 PM | Folly Theater
One of the world’s most esteemed pianists, Richard Goode, returns in what is now a relationship with Kansas City audiences that spans almost 25 years. It was in 1987, at the Folly Theater, that Goode performed all of the Beethoven Sonatas, helping to launch his now legendary career. It’s always an honor to hear Goode play; and with Beethoven, Mozart, and Chopin on the program, long-time fans can relish another wonderful musical experience, and those hearing him for the first time will discover why Goode is such a favorite.
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Friday, March 9 | 8:00 PM | Folly Theater
One of the world’s most esteemed pianists, Richard Goode, returns in what is now a relationship with Kansas City audiences that spans almost 25 years. It was in 1987, at the Folly Theater, that Goode performed all of the Beethoven Sonatas, helping to launch his now legendary career. It’s always an honor to hear Goode play; and with Beethoven, Mozart, and Chopin on the program, long-time fans can relish another wonderful musical experience, and those hearing him for the first time will discover why Goode is such a favorite.
Buy Tickets.
Program:
MOZART Fantasia in C minor, K.475
MOZART Sonata in C minor, K. 457
BEETHOVEN Sonata in E-Flat Major, Op. 31, No.3
SCHUMANN Kinderszenen, Op. 15
CHOPIN Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 55, No. 2
Waltz in A-Flat Major, Op. 64, No. 3
Waltz in F Major, Op. 34, No. 3
Nocturne in C-Sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 1
Ballade No. 3 in A-Flat Major, Op. 47
MOZART Fantasia in C minor, K.475
MOZART Sonata in C minor, K. 457
BEETHOVEN Sonata in E-Flat Major, Op. 31, No.3
SCHUMANN Kinderszenen, Op. 15
CHOPIN Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 55, No. 2
Waltz in A-Flat Major, Op. 64, No. 3
Waltz in F Major, Op. 34, No. 3
Nocturne in C-Sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 1
Ballade No. 3 in A-Flat Major, Op. 47
Recent Review
Richard Goode Opens the New Season in Rockport's Internationally-Acclaimed Hall
with a recital offering "An Incomparable Act of Pianism"
"This experience on Sunday afternoon, October 2, seemed somewhat like a dream. Here I was, looking out that big, completely windowed wall behind Goode and seeing a seascape out of Debussy's La Mer, when, like an illusionist, Goode turned my gaze totally upon his musical conjuring of some of the most subtle dialogues I'd never heard before. As I said, he's a talker at the keyboard and tells stories that keep you hanging on every word, or note, as it were. Personages of all sorts emerged in Schumann's dialectical Florestan-Eusebius compositional world. Scenes shifted, as they do in the best movies, you are here and before you know you are there. I do not believe there was a single moment during the entire program that I did not understand what this or that note or move meant or why it belonged as it did.
Two encores, one of Chopin and one of Bach brought this ever-so-artful and personal outing to a close. Richard Goode's foray into the infinitesimal in articulation, spectrum of color, and the millisecond in time adds up to an incomparable art of pianism."
- David Patterson | www.notescape.net
with a recital offering "An Incomparable Act of Pianism"
"This experience on Sunday afternoon, October 2, seemed somewhat like a dream. Here I was, looking out that big, completely windowed wall behind Goode and seeing a seascape out of Debussy's La Mer, when, like an illusionist, Goode turned my gaze totally upon his musical conjuring of some of the most subtle dialogues I'd never heard before. As I said, he's a talker at the keyboard and tells stories that keep you hanging on every word, or note, as it were. Personages of all sorts emerged in Schumann's dialectical Florestan-Eusebius compositional world. Scenes shifted, as they do in the best movies, you are here and before you know you are there. I do not believe there was a single moment during the entire program that I did not understand what this or that note or move meant or why it belonged as it did.
Two encores, one of Chopin and one of Bach brought this ever-so-artful and personal outing to a close. Richard Goode's foray into the infinitesimal in articulation, spectrum of color, and the millisecond in time adds up to an incomparable art of pianism."
- David Patterson | www.notescape.net
