On the occasion of celebrating Estonian composer Jaan R\u00e4\u00e4ts’ 85th birthday, French pianist Nicolas Horv\u00e0th, who is an admirer of Estonian music, will be performing a selection of the composer’s suites for piano. In addition to Jaan R\u00e4\u00e4ts’ own music, Horv\u00e0th will play a selection of pieces written by the composer’s former students.<\/p>\n
Nicolas Horv\u00e0th is famous for some of his extraordinarily long piano concerts. He has recently performed and recorded music pieces of\u00a0such renown composers as Erik Satie and Philip Glass. Horv\u00e0th has interpreted a\u00a0wide range of famous coomposers’ work: from the romantic piano pieces of Ferenc Liszt and Fryderyk Chopin to Aleksandr Skrjabin and Erik Satie’s composition (amongst the latter’s work’ “Vexation”, which is more than 14 h long!) to Philip Glass and more contemporary young composers. He has made first interpretations of over 120 new music pieces.<\/p>\n
Nicolas Horv\u00e0th has a special relation to Jaan R\u00e4\u00e4ts’ composition\u00a0– he has made it a personal cause to widespread his music. Horv\u00e0th has performed R\u00e4\u00e4ts’ pieces\u00a0in several countries and\u00a0at\u00a0such\u00a0important concerts as the final concert at the 2015 Universal\u00a0Exposition in Milan, in 2016 at the European Parliament on the occasion of assigning EU Council Presidency to Estonia and also in Carnegie Hall, where he played all of Philip Glass’ preludes for piano and also 13 new piano pieces from various composers, among\u00a0them a piano prelude by Jaan R\u00e4\u00e4ts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The music composition of Jaan R\u00e4\u00e4ts is ample\u00a0and generally described as playful and rythmic. He has mainly composed instrumental music pieces\u00a0with much of it written for the piano.<\/p>\n
The concerts\u00a0<\/strong>:<\/p>\n \n The program <\/strong>:<\/p>\n Jaan R\u00e4\u00e4ts (1932): \u201cRaadio 4\u201d op. 124 (2004) Ballad\u00a0nr 1 and 19 from the cycle\u00a0\u201c24 marginaali\u201d op. 65 (1979\u20131980) \u201cTokaata\u201d (1968) Ballad\u00a0nr 3, 4, 8, 15 and\u00a022 from the cycle\u00a0\u201c24 bagatelli\u201d op. 50 (1973) Sonata nr 10 op. 111 (2000\/2014) Sonata nr 9 op. 76 (1985\/2014) Horv\u00e0th has helped organize some orchestra performances of Jaan R\u00e4\u00e4ts’ compositions\u00a0is a contributor\u00a0to\u00a0the development of the\u00a0website: www.jaanraats.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the occasion of celebrating Estonian composer Jaan R\u00e4\u00e4ts’ 85th birthday, French pianist Nicolas Horv\u00e0th, who is an admirer of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[645,540],"class_list":["post-19521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-music","tag-musique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ife.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ife.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ife.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ife.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ife.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ife.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ife.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ife.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ife.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ife.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\n Vsevolod Pozdejev (1979) \u201cVaadates Jaan R\u00e4\u00e4tsa k\u00e4sikirju. S\u00fcit Jaan R\u00e4\u00e4tsa kahele teemale\u201d (2016, first ever performance in Estonia)
\n Avi Benjamin (1959) \u201cHommage Jaan R\u00e4\u00e4tsale\u201d (2016, first ever performance in Estonia)
\n Timo Steiner (1976) \u201cHommage Jaan R\u00e4\u00e4tsale\u201d (2016, first ever performance)
\n Raimo Kangro (1949\u20132001) Sonaat nr 3 op. 15 (1976, first ever performance,in hommage to Jaan R\u00e4\u00e4ts)
\n Kerri Kotta (1969) \u201cOutro\u201d (2016, first ever performance in Estonia)
\n T\u00f5nis Kaumann (1971) \u201cHommage Jaan R\u00e4\u00e4tsale\u201d (2017, first ever performance)
\n Erkki-Sven T\u00fc\u00fcr (1959) \u201cHommage Jaan R\u00e4\u00e4tsale\u201d (2017, first ever performance)
\n T\u00f5nu K\u00f5rvits (1969) \u201cEnding in C\u201d (2016, first ever performance in Estonia)
\n Mihkel Kerem (1981) \u201cToccata (Hommage Jaan R\u00e4\u00e4tsale)\u201d (2016, first ever performance in Estonia)<\/p>\n