Preconcert conversation with Beatrice Berrut

Beatrice Berrut (piano) sits down with Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres for a pre-concert discussion. The fantastical imagination of composer-pianist Beatrice Berrut draws from the innumerable possibilities of the piano's sound. Highly regarded for her 2021 recording of Franz Liszt's late works, Berrut has released a number of revelatory accounts of Liszt's music, alongside her latest album that features some of her own music and transcriptions. The Library holds essential primary source materials for Liszt's first elegy and his three funeral odes, highly personal works drawing on a vast array of references. We will also hear Liszt's piano transformation of Camille Saint-Saëns' symphonic poem Danse macabre, before two transcriptions written by Berrut herself: the Andantino from Gustav Mahler's sixth symphony and The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas. It will be a rare occasion to hear the music of Mahler and Dukas in the Coolidge Auditorium. For transcript and more information, visit https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-11939