This evening, we invite our audience to attend a presentation of the NEUPERT fortepiano named after Louis Dulcken (a copy of an instrument made in 1815).

The best Russia’s specialists in historically informed performance will play on this instrument for the first time in concerts. Professor Alexey Lubimov founded the national school of period performance and authentic interpretation of musical notation. His unique collection of early keyboards is an instrument base for the Department of Historically Informed and Contemporary Performance at the Moscow Conservatory. Prof. Lubimov plays dozens of keyboards from various periods, and each instrument requires a certain performance technique. Elizaveta Miller, one of his students, is the first Russian winner of the Musica Antiqua Bruges competition for fortepiano (MAfestival Brugge festival of ancient music and historically informed performances). Recently, they presented the entire cycle of Ludwig van Beethoven’s piano sonatas. “Now, I cannot play Beethoven’s music on contemporary instruments. They seem too coarse and completely unable to reflect Beethoven’s ideas. Neither tempo nor dynamics or pedal marks in his musical notations may be implemented on the contemporary keyboards”, said Prof. Lubimov in an interview.

Zaryadye Hammerklavier is an example of classical and early romantic fortepiano that is capable to embody the tempo, dynamics and a variety of subtle details of the music composed specifically for this type of keyboards by Beethoven contemporaries. Six sonatas by the great Viennese composer will show us how he heard his music.