A frequent presence on the Grand Auditorium stage, where he performed with the Gulbenkian Orchestra in May 2014, the remarkable Brazilian pianist Nelson Freire returns to the Gulbenkian Music season, this time for a recital. «Few pianists alive convey the sheer joy and exhilaration of being masters of their craft more vividly and uncomplicatedly than Nelson Freire», Andrew Clements wrote in the British newspaper The Guardian in May 2014. «A player for whom dazzling technique is just a means to a musical end, never something to be flaunted for its own sake».

Nelson Freire Piano

Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 14, in C-sharp minor, op. 27 no. 2, “Moonlight”
Piano Sonata No. 31, in A-flat major, op. 110

Claude Debussy
Reflets dans l’eau (Images I)
Poissons d’or (Images II)

Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Nocturne in B-flat major, op. 16 no. 4

Fryderyk Chopin
Impromptu n.º 2, in F-sharp major, op. 36
Mazurka in B minor, op. 33 no. 4
Ballade No. 3, in A-flat major, op. 47