Claire Huangci

Her recital opens with a pianistic »Overture in the French style« by Bach, a complex work in eight movements, most of them with dance character that is heard far too rarely in the concert hall. Likewise full of vibrant rhythms are the »16 Waltzes« by Brahms and his famous »Hungarian Dances«, which obviously belong on the programme of »Pianomania«’s dance spotlight. Between the Bach and the Brahms, Huangci lets Schumann’s butterflies flutter past in »Papillons«, a work inspired by »confusion at a Fasching ball«, as the writer Jean Paul describes it in his novel fragment »Flegeljahre«.