Inon Barnatan

A celebrated pianist of “breathtaking charisma” (Philadelphia Inquirer) and “uncommon sensitivity” (New Yorker), Inon Barnatan brings Portland Piano International’s season to a close with a program of mesmerizing music by Rachmaninoff and Schubert.

Rachmaninoff’s early Moments musicauxshowcase signature elements of the Russian composer’s unabashedly romantic music — lush melodies, heightened expression, and thunderous, bell-like sounds — while honoring Schubert’s own Moments musicaux, emotional tone poems one critic called “intimate confidences from Schubert’s innermost soul.” And Rachmaninoff’s nostalgia-laced Symphonic Dances, his final expression of unfulfilled longing for home after 20 years of exile in the US, is born anew in Barnatan’s explosive transcription for solo piano.

Rachmaninoff Reflections

FRANZ SCHUBERT 

Moments Musicaux, D. 780

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF 

Moments Musicaux, Op. 16

— Intermission —

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF 

Symphonic Dances, Op. 45