ANNA KISKACHI – FIREBIRD: INFERNAL DANCES
- Date: Saturday, November 4, 2023
- Timing: Doors open 7:30 pm for an 8:00 pm start
- Venue: Live! at 10th and G, 945 G St. NW, Washington DC 20001. Venue is a modern, mostly glass building close to MLK Library
- Metro: One block’s walk from either Metro Center or Gallery Place Station
- Parking: Below venue garage parking available at a flat rate $10 with entry after 5:00 pm.Entrance at 980 G Place, N.W. on backside of building.
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Harpsichord enfant terrible, Anna Kiskachi, returns to Capriccio to debut her latest thrilling program Firebird: Infernal Dances. Her inspiration is Igor Stravinsky’s Infernal Dance from his ballet “The Firebird”. Anna’s program dazzles and astonishes. The program pairs the sense of movement in these dances pieces from different time periods in unexpected ways. Marchand’s silky Baroque Courante and Chaconne find themselves juxtaposed with Bartok’s 20th century Romanian dances. Handel’s rippling dances and Passacaille from Suite VII are oddly mirrored in Johan Huys’ contemporary work ‘This is not a Passacaille’. And, Purcell’s ‘Cold song’ which evokes the frigid climes of the Little Ice Age, melts into de Falla’s flaming ‘Fire Dance”. The program’s tour de force is Stravinsky’s Infernal Dance, a fiendishly complicated work transcribed for harpsichord by Anna Kiskachi. A not to be missed concert!
Ouest France, French Newspaper
“We didn’t expect that the harpsichord could render such emotive and hot-blooded music”
“Her distinctive and recognizable style, torrid emotionality, profound sound, and intriguing and unexpected musical conceptions are what makes her harpsichord speak and her concerts a fascinating tour de force.”
“…la charismatique claveciniste…“
Andrew Benson-Wilson for Early Music Review
Anna Kiskachi “…completely steals the show with her virtuosic performance …This really was a show-stopping performance, full of dramatic and well-timed pauses.”
Augsburger allgemeine, German newspaper
“Just grandiose…”
Whalian News, German Newspaper
“I have not experienced such a fascinating concert for a long time“
Augsburger Allgemeine, German newspaper
“A. Kiskachi managed (in Royers “Vertigo“) to get furious and rich sounds out of her instrument … before returning seconds later to finer sounds”
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- Please note that ticket sales are final and refunds cannot be processed.
- Ticket exchanges are possible providing exchange requests are received +7 days before the concert. Exchange requests should be emailed to Carolyn@CapriccioBaroque.org
- In the unlikely event Capriccio must cancel a concert ticket holders will be reimbursed by mailed check.
