Klavierabend Beatrice Rana by Various, De (2022/2022), Wiener Konzerthaus, Viena, Austria

Summiteer on Mount Everest "That's Mount Everest!" With Beethoven's "Hammerklavier Sonata", pianists climb summits: not only Dina Ugorskaja, who died far too early, recognized this. The musically radical work is still a touchstone. Beatrice Rana, who despite her relatively young age can already look back on an outstanding career, is one of these mountaineers: She began her piano studies before she started school and made her debut with orchestra at the age of nine. In the years that followed, she made a name for herself at international competitions, with the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition being a milestone for the then 20-year-old. Since then, the Italian has fascinated audiences around the world with piano literature that shows just as much character as its interpreter: It places Chopin's Sonata in B flat minor alongside Beethoven's pioneering and equally challenging »Hammerklavier Sonata« alongside works by Alexander Scriabin. Robert Schumann already knew that this, with its unusual modulations, is much more than her famous funeral march, so that he decided in amazement: "It's not music." No, it's much more - a world in itself that Beatrice Rana reveals to us will.