ONLINE: Christopher Taylor

Name: ONLINE: Christopher Taylor
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Dec 17, 2020 7:00 PM

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November 20, 2020

4:46 PM

Amandalynn Jones

UW-Madison professor Christopher Taylor.

The Library of Congress is getting in on the virtual concert action, transforming its 2020-2021 season into a free online series. Thursday features UW-Madison professor and virtuoso pianist Christopher Taylor. Taylor will perform Franz Liszt's transcriptions of Beethoven's symphonies, a remarkable feat where Liszt created solo piano versions of the composer's major works. Taylor says the pieces offer a “new perspective on something familiar." Register here for the premiere, or watch later on the Library of Congress YouTube channel.

media release: It takes extraordinary skill as an orchestrator to condense an entire Beethoven symphony into a version for a solo instrument, but that is just what Franz Liszt accomplished in his piano transcriptions. Hear virtuoso pianist Christoper Taylor perform three of these transcendent symphony transcriptions, works he describes as a “new perspective on something familiar."

For updates and extras, visit loc.gov/concerts.

PROGRAM

BEETHOVEN/LISZT Symphony no. 1 in C major, op. 21

BEETHOVEN/LISZT Symphony no. 2 in D major, op. 36

BEETHOVEN/LISZT Symphony no. 5 in C minor, op. 67

The 2020-2021 season of Concerts from the Library of Congress: Virtually the best

Our 2020-2021 season will be presented entirely virtually, through a freshly-conceived portal to our concerts, conversations, lectures and much more, available free of charge to everyone. In our 96th season, encountering unprecedented times and unpredictable challenges, we embark on an exciting venture: to share our concerts, and the Library’s magnificent music collections, with the widest possible audience worldwide. New music and new media come together in a year that sees a mini-fest of Latinx composers and the world premieres of four new Library of Congress commissions. Two virtual residencies feature the JACK Quartet and violinist Jennifer Koh, visionary artists fired by a passion to reflect the rich diversity in our society and our music. (Re)Hearing Beethoven is a festive 250th birthday celebration you absolutely can’t miss: performances of revelatory transcriptions of the composer’s nine symphonies introduced by artists and scholars in programs devised for deep immersion in our Beethoven treasures.

How to watch 2020 Events

Starting at 8pm (eastern) on the scheduled premiere date, each video will be available on the following platforms: