Série jeunes: Dmitry Yudin

The Russian pianist Dmitry Yudin is not making his first appearance at the Tonhalle Zürich: In the final of the Concours Géza Anda 2024, he played Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 2 under the leadership of Paavo Järvi. Now, the 26-year-old presents a varied recital program: It begins with Beethoven's Sonata in E-Dur, which he wrote when he was not much older than Yudin today – and ends with Handel-Variations that Brahms composed for Clara Schumann. In between are the Sonata by Erwin Schulhoff, in which one can recognize references to Brahms’ ‘Hungarian Dances’ – and the fantasiful Humoresques, with which Max Reger inserted himself into the genre tradition opened by Schumann. Here, agile ears may detect inspiration: Reger quotes among other things the popular song of his time 'Du bist verrückt, mein Kind'.