Piotr Anderszewski

Polish Piotr Anderszewski has recorded around twenty albums, many of which have earned the finest distinctions of the industry, and without hesitation, he is one of today’s most respected pianists. He performs on the most prestigious stages around the world, but has actually only played at Konserthuset once before, in a recital with violinist Viktoria Mullova 25 years ago.  

The programme is framed by two scores by Johann Sebastian Bach, in between which we hear works by Bartók and Piotr Anderszewski’s fellow countryman, Szymanowski. Szymanowski’s Mazurkas – we hear five of the twenty performed here – take Chopin’s style further into the twentieth century. The music contains a variety of different moods, with an impressive richness of colour and inventiveness. 

The Bagatelles were composed after Bartók conducted his first in-depth explorations of Hungarian folk music. As is often the case with Bartók, the music contains elements of both folk music and contemporary classical, as expressed through Bartók’s imaginative and creative symbiosis of sounds.