The famous Hamburg Symphony Orchestra is preparing an exceptional performance for the Lithuanian audience. Elite collective of European and world classical stage on October 24. In the newly equipped LVSO concert hall in Vilnius, he will perform with the legendary contemporary pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard. "It's a wonderful experience to meet Aimard's astonishing technique, indomitable energy and fanatical enthusiasm," wrote The Times critic about the famous French pianist. Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and Aimard concert Vilnius will undoubtedly become one of the musical capitals of Europe. A concert will be conducted by one of the most famous conductors of our time, Sylvain Cambreling, who has been leading the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra for almost seven decades since 2018.
"Aimard doesn't seem to perform the music as much as he lives it... The last phrases he gets out fall into a stunned silence and seem to last forever, until the thunderous applause begins," wrote his impressions of Pierre-Laurent Aimard in "The Guardian columnist.
Pierre-Laurent Aimard personally knew many legendary artists of the 20th century. creators, it is enough to mention that he was a student of the famous pianist Yvonne Loriod, wife of Olivier Messiaen, at the Paris Conservatoire. He performs music from Bach to Ligeti, has won a Grammy, and has recordings on iTunes' most-sent albums list. Aimard is widely recognized internationally as a special performer, unique in that he combines and perfectly performs music from different eras in his programs.
Such epithets as "combination of dedication and deep sincerity", "breathtaking" performance, highlighting the sensuality encoded in the composer's music, constantly accompany Aimard's recitals and concerts with the world's most important orchestras - the Royal Concertgebouw, the Vienna and New York Philharmonics, the Leipzig Gewandhaus orchestras. He has played under the baton conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Vladimir Jurowski, Peter Eötvös, Sir Simon Rattle and many other famous conductors of today.
Aimard is invited to be a resident pianist and to perform in the world's great halls - New York's Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Vienna's Konzerthaus, Berlin Philharmonic, Paris Philharmonic, Cité de la Musique, Mozarteum in Salzburg. From 2009 to 2016, Aimard was the artistic director of the prestigious and long-standing Oldborough Music Festival (UK), and for a long time - the artistic advisor of the music festival "Exquisite Labyrinth" organized by the Southbank Center in London.
Aimard is happy to perform, and the audience willingly accepts both his interpretations of the classics and contemporary programs. He has performed all of Beethoven's piano concertos as resident pianist with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. The famous Deutsche Grammophon publishing company has released his album for Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. The pianist's recording of Bach's "Art of the Fugue" won him Diapason d'Or and Choc du Monde de la Musique awards, and topped the Billboard Classical Charts and iTunes' Most Downloaded Classical Albums list. Pentatone recently released Aimard's recording of the complete Bartók Piano Concertos with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. in 2021 The album of Beethoven sonatas "Hammerklavier Sonata & Eroica Variations" appeared in 2018. - Messiaen's "Catalogue d'oiseaux" ("Catalogue of the Birds"), which won the pianist various awards, including the prestigious German prize "Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik".
A unique musical event in Lithuania - Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and legendary pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard and famous conductor Sylvain Cambreling concert in Vilnius - October 24 LVSO concert hall. Tickets are distributed by "Bilietai.lt".
