Work: 5 Pieces for piano, Op.23

Revolutionary music, a century on: Pierre-Laurent Aimard excels in Schoenberg and Ives.

An International Piano Series event, Karim Said’s recital this Sunday was also part of the Southbank Centre’s Berlin in the ’20s and ’30s weekend, a mini-series within the larger series (super-series, perhaps) which is the year-long Rest is Noise festival. He presented a short series of works by Arnold Schoenberg and his composition students Anton von Webern and Hanns Eisler.

Um Pierre Boulez, eine der Lichtgestalten der modernen Musik, versammelte Pierre-Laurent Aimard im Programm seines außergewöhnlichen Klavierabends die musikalischen Leuchttürme von dessen musikalischem Kosmos: Claude Debussy, Arnold Schönberg und Anton von Webern.