Beatrice Rana, birthday on tv
From Paris to New York, from Vienna to Milan, from London to Rome, wherever it goes it is always sold out: a further reason for satisfaction for Beatrice Rana, the extraordinary pianist from Salento who has long been world queen of the eighty-eight keys. All this at the age of only thirty, which she will turn just tomorrow. And just on the occasion of this birthday Rai Cultura dedicates a special tribute to her.
Soloist in concert with the Rai Symphony Orchestra
Today on Rai 5, at 7.43 and at 19will in fact be transmitted byArturo Toscanini Auditorium in Turin the concert ofRai National Symphony Orchestra, directed by the Japanese master Eiji Oue, with solo pianist Beatrice Rana engaged in the Concerto n.3 for piano and orchestra by Béla Bartók. The program is completed by the “Tragische Ouverture” in D minor op.81 by Johannes Brahms.
Monday in Milan to inaugurate the Scala Philharmonic Season
The “celebrations” for the birthday will continue even the day after tomorrow, when the star of the piano will inaugurate in Milan the new season of the Filarmonica della Scala. Another great talent will be on the podium, the young Israeli conductor Lahav Shani. On the program are the 24 virtuosic variations of the “Rhapsody on a Paganini theme” for piano and orchestra by Sergej Rachmaninov, and the Third Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven.
Beatrice Rana has always been acclaimed by the Scala public since her first appearance in 2015, when she played Beethoven’s Concerto No. 1 with the Philharmonic conducted by Marc Albrecht. She then returned to the Piermarini hall two years later for the first performance of the Concerto for piano and orchestra by Charles Boccadoro. On that occasion he went up to the podium Riccardo Chailly. And then the 2020 hat-trick, starting with the concert on February 17, a few days before the lockdown. Directed by Fabio Luisi, the pianist from Salento interpreted Beethoven’s “Quarto”. On 6 July she was instead the protagonist of the reopening concert together with the cellist Misha Maysky and baritone Simon Piazzolla. Finally, on December 24, with the theaters closed to the public again, she played in the Christmas Concert broadcast by Rai and entirely dedicated to Mozart. With her the soprano Aida Garifullina and the director Michael Mariotti. His last exciting performance at Verona dates back to 3 July 2021 when, directed by Manfred Honeckshe tried her hand at Brahms’ Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1.
New album coming soon
It is therefore a golden moment for Beatrice, who continues with the spectacular new recording for Warner Classics, the prestigious record company with which she records exclusively. In fact, the album dedicated to the will be released on February 3rd Piano Concertos by Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck-Schumann, who became Robert’s wife in 1840. The Salento musician is accompanied by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Both pieces performed were for the first time in concert by Clara, one of the greatest performers and composers of the 19th century.
“It was only when I started studying Clara’s concerto that I realized how visionary this woman was from a young age,” Beatrice points out. The album also contains Liszt’s transcription for solo piano of Robert’s lied “Widmung,” an exuberant love dedication composed the year Robert and Clara were married. The Frog feels that her text, a poem by Friedrich Ruckert, represents the essence of their relationship, «recounting a love so incredible that it brings out in each of them “ein bess’res Ich” – a better self. “Widmung”, in Liszt’s transcription, is also my dedication to this great couple, an inexhaustible source of inspiration».