JPO Soloist-in-Residence Federico Colli has won worldwide acclaim for his unconventional interpretation and thoughtful approach to music making, as well as for the clarity of his piano playing and refined musical sensibility. In his Ostrava recital he will play works by Ligeti, Couperin and Mozart.

György Ligeti
Musica ricercata

François Couperin
Selected compositions

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Adagio in B minor KV 540

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Variations in C major on the song “Ah vous dirai-je Maman” KV 265

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata No 11 in A major KV 331, Rondo “alla Turca”

Federico Colli – piano

JPO Soloist-in-Residence Federico Colli has gained worldwide recognition not only for his unconventional interpretation and thoughtful approach to music creation, but also for his clarity of piano playing and refined musical sensibility. His Ostrava recital will open with Musica ricercata by Hungarian composer György Ligeti. This eleven-movement piano suite was composed in 1951-1953 in Budapest and, given the time and place of its composition, is a remarkably experimental work. Its first movement is based solely on rhythmic variations of a single note, and each subsequent movement adds an extra note so that a polyphonic ricercar can develop in the last movement.

The French Baroque composer François Couperin served as court organist at the chapel of Louis XIV in Versailles. The concert will feature a selection of his more than 230 compositions for harpsichord, often composed in the form of Baroque dances or as small programmatic pieces.

Baroque music also undeniably influenced Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as evidenced, for example, by the Adagio for piano from 1788. Ten years earlier, during a concert trip to Paris, he composed twelve variations on the well-known melody of the French nursery rhyme “Ah vous dirai-je, Maman”. The work proves that even beneath a simple exterior, unexpected depths can be revealed. The Piano Sonata in A major with Rondo “alla Turca” was probably also written in Paris in 1778. It has gained immortal popularity, especially thanks to its finale, which imitates the noisy marching music of the Turkish Janissaries.