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18 July — 6 September 2025

Cycle «Change III» 2023 — 2025

Bruce Liu

Thursday, 27 July 2023, Saanen Church

Chamber Music

Thursday, 27 July 2023
7.30 pm, Saanen Church

He caused a sensation last summer with a spectacular Bach-Chopin-Ravel-Liszt recital. Winner of the prestigious Warsaw International Chopin Competition in 2021, Bruce Liu is back with a new, dazzling programme that not only features the indispensable Chopin: Besides Beethoven’s monumental “Waldstein”, Liu opens his programme with some pieces (originally composed for harpsichord) by the revolutionary Jean-Philippe Rameau. The programme is finally completed with Variations by the much too unknown Russian composer Nikolai Kapustin. Kapustin was trained in Moscow by the great Alexander Goldenweiser and became a cornerstone of the modern Russian piano school during his career. He was known for being an outstanding personality of great classical virtuosity, but his jazz improvisation was just as legendary. Kapustin died in Moscow in 2020.

Bruce Liu, piano

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) 
Selection of pieces10'
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) 
Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53 “Waldstein”25'
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) 
«3 Nouvelles Etudes» for Piano, B. 1307'
Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor, Op. 35 “Marche funèbre”22'
Nikolai Kapustin (1937-2020) 
Variations for Piano, Op. 417'
 70'
CHF 125/105/65/40