Awadagin Pratt Performs 'Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor with the Ciompi Quartet at Duke' University 8 PM, Saturday, September 20, 2014

Awadagin Pratt

(www.xavier.edu)

The career of Awadagin Pratt continues to fascinate us.  We have a few of his recordings in our collection, including the Brahms disc he recorded on Telarc with cellist Zuill Bailey.  The following program is just one of four he has listed at his website for the month of September 2014:

The home page of Awadagin Pratt, http://www.awadagin.com,  announces:

Awadagin will be performing the Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor with the Ciompi Quartet at Duke:

September 20 - Durham, NC
8:00 p.m., Baldwin Auditorium, Duke University
Performance with the Ciompi Quartet
Brahms: Quintet in F Minor

Duke University

Ciompi Concert No. 1 featuring Awadagin Pratt, Piano

Saturday, September 20 | 8 pm

Baldwin Auditorium

$25

$10 all students

General Admission

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In the Ciompi Quartet’s venerable tradition of opening each season with a work by Haydn, this program begins with the vivacious String Quartet in B-flat Major, op. 50, no. 1, the first of the composer’s Prussian quartets. Beethoven’s String Quartet in F Minor, op. 95 (“Serioso”), follows, a compact composition with a sense of liberation that echoes the bravura Overture from Egmont. In the evening’s boldly expressive finale, Brahms’ Piano Quintet in F Minor, op. 34, the Ciompi are joined by Awadagin Pratt, a charismatic pianist who started his illustrious career with a Naumburg International Piano Competition win and an Avery Fisher Career Grant. "Pratt plays with a full-bodied intensity that can be at turns intimate and grandly heart-wrenching. He has a story to tell, and you can hear him agonizing over every twist. Pratt commands your unfailing attention” (Newsweek).

PROGRAM:

Haydn: String Quartet in B-flat Major, op. 50, no. 1

Beethoven: String Quartet in F Minor, op. 95 (“Serioso”)

Brahms: Piano Quintet in F Minor, op. 34