Edinburgh International Festival: Pierre-Laurent Aimard
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Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard performs a programme at The Queens Hall as part of the Edinburgh International Festival on 26 August 2026. Further information regarding ticket availability is available online.
Pierre-Laurent Aimard – ‘one of the most essential keyboard advocates of our era’ (The Guardian) – enjoyed a close professional partnership and friendship with pianist and composer Alfred Brendel. In the third of our Brendel tribute recitals, he offers a characteristically imaginative programme of works close to both their hearts. Brendel had a particular fondness for Franz Schubert. Aimard performs some of Schubert’s shorter lyrical works alongside finely crafted miniatures by his own long-term collaborator György Kurtág – himself a Schubert devotee. Aimard has also chosen a selection of Ludwig van Beethoven’s alternately witty and tender Bagatelles – another Brendel favourite. He juxtaposes them with a work by the composer who dubbed Aimard ‘the best pianist for me’ (The New York Times): György Ligeti’s inventive and virtuosic Musica ricercata. In Aimard's recent performance of works by Kurtág and Ligeti, The Telegraph described Brendel’s spirit as ‘smiling down on us’.
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Edinburgh International Festival: Pierre-Laurent Aimard takes place on Wednesday, 26 August 2026.
Edinburgh International Festival: Pierre-Laurent Aimard is held at The Queens Hall Edinburgh in Edinburgh (85 - 89 Clerk Street, Edinburgh South EH8 9JG).
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Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard performs a programme at The Queens Hall as part of the Edinburgh International Festival on 26 August 2026. Further information regarding ticket availability is available online.
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard – ‘one of the most essential keyboard advocates of our era’ (The Guardian) – enjoyed a close professional partnership and friendship with pianist and composer Alfred Brendel. In the third of our Brendel tribute recitals, he offers a characteristically imaginative programme of works close to both their hearts. Brendel had a particular fondness for Franz Schubert. Aimard performs some of Schubert’s shorter lyrical works alongside finely crafted miniatures by his own long-term collaborator György Kurtág – himself a Schubert devotee. Aimard has also chosen a selection of Ludwig van Beethoven’s alternately witty and tender Bagatelles – another Brendel favourite. He juxtaposes them with a work by the composer who dubbed Aimard ‘the best pianist for me’ (The New York Times): György Ligeti’s inventive and virtuosic Musica ricercata. In Aimard's recent performance of works by Kurtág and Ligeti, The Telegraph described Brendel’s spirit as ‘smiling down on us’.
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The Queens Hall Edinburgh85 - 89 Clerk Street, Edinburgh South EH8 9JG
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Edinburgh International Festival: Pierre-Laurent Aimard takes place on Wednesday, 26 August 2026.
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Edinburgh International Festival: Pierre-Laurent Aimard is held at The Queens Hall Edinburgh in Edinburgh (85 - 89 Clerk Street, Edinburgh South EH8 9JG).
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