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This is a good week for hearing some great pianists in the area, and of all stripes and colors, too. Some good options for free concerts are listed after the jump.
>> First, Alfred Brendel may not be giving public recitals anymore, but he still has plenty to say, as he will do in a lecture titled On Character in Music, presented by Washington Performing Arts Society at the Austrian Embassy tomorrow (November 16, 7 p.m.). The evening will include Brendel performing some excerpts of Beethoven piano sonatas.
>> For a different perspective on 19th-century music, try the recital by Malcolm Bilson, a specialist on historical keyboard instruments, on Thursday (November 19, 7:30 p.m.), playing the Broadwood piano in the Mansion at Strathmore.
>> Of course, François-Frédéric Guy continues his Iron Man cycle of the Beethoven sonatas all this week (November 16 to 22, various times) at La Maison Française. What we heard at the first concert in the series on Friday night (review forthcoming for the Washington Post) was very promising indeed, and Guy's recording of the Hammerklavier sonata makes the later concerts especially hard to resist.
>> Jean-Yves Thibaudet concludes a two-week stint with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, with a concert that features him playing the solo part of Liszt's daunting Totentanz, this Thursday (November 19, 8 p.m.) in the Music Center at Strathmore.
>> Leif Ove Andsnes returns to Washington on Friday (November 20, 7:30 p.m.) to perform his new collaboration with South African visual artist Robin Rhode -- a multimedia concert called Pictures Reframed featuring Mussorgsky's beloved Pictures at an Exhibition, in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater.
MAKE IT FREE:
>> Hear the Kronos Quartet, the meisters of modern, read through new compositions by University of Maryland students on Monday (November 16, 7 p.m.) at Clarice Smith Center.
>> Take your lunchtime on Wednesday (November 18, 12:10 p.m.) at the National Gallery of Art, with a different multimedia concert by pianist Thomas Mastroianni. Stephen Ackert will narrate the program called "A Suite Bergamasque in Art and Music."
>> The Bach Cantata Series continues this Thursday (November 19, 1:30 p.m.), presented by the University of Maryland School of Music at Clarice Smith Center, with Bach's Wer nur den lieben Gott lasst walten (BWV 93).
>> On Friday (November 20, 7:30 p.m.), the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (4th St. and Michigan Ave. NE) will feature a concert by its own professional choir, called Ad Jesum per Mariam, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the National Shrine.
>> The same evening (November 20, 8 p.m.) the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt will give a free concert with soprano Lorna Anderson and tenor Jamie MacDougall at the Library of Congress.
>> On Sunday, the price of admission to the Phillips Collection will include a free recital (November 22, 4 p.m.) by baritone Ryan de Ryke and pianist Daniel Schlosberg.
>> Daring British organist Jeremy Filsell will give a free recital at Washington National Cathedral on Sunday (November 22, 5:15 p.m.).
>> The National Gallery of Art opens its 64th American Music Festival with a free concert on Sunday (November 22, 6:30 p.m.) by clarinetist Richard Stoltzman and pianist Yehudi Wyner, including music by Carter, Reich, and Wyner.
ALSO:
>> One of the world's greatest conductors, Riccardo Muti, is in town to lead a performance by the New York Philharmonic on Saturday (November 21, 4 p.m.), sponsored by WPAS in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. The program of Liszt, Elgar, and Prokofiev should be rewarding, too.
>> Superstar violinist Joshua Bell will play Lalo's Symphonie espagnole with the National Symphony Orchestra this week (November 19, 21, and 22, various times), in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall.
>> The Vogler String Quartet will play the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater on Thursday (November 19, 7:30 p.m.), to celebrate the group's 25th anniversary and the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
>> Opera fans may want to take the opportunity to see a rarely produced Mozart opera, La Finta Giardiniera, in the bare-bones staging by Maryland Opera Studio at Clarice Smith Center (November 19, 21, and 23), even if it is accompanied only by piano.
>> Composer Julia Wolfe will be on hand for the premiere of her new work Steel Hammer, which will feature performances by the Bang on a Can All-Stars and the exceptional vocal ensemble Trio Mediaeval, on Friday (November 20, 8 p.m.) at Clarice Smith Center.
>> For more concert information go to Ionarts.
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