Richard Goode

Richard Goode will now be our guest at deSingel for the sixth time. And we can never get enough of this ‘pianist’s pianist’. In every concert he adds new insight to the works he plays. And to the art of piano playing itself.
Goode is a great lover of literature. And this can be heard in the way he plays with the skills of a born storyteller. On this occasion he recites works by his favourite writers. Mozart’s Adagio in B minor is a melancholy short story whose main protagonists are Messrs Dissonant and Seufzer. In Beethoven’s romantic novella, opus 78, the focus is on the struggle between heart and mind. According to the music critic Max Kalbeck, in his eight internal monologues, opus 76, Brahms did not intend to “attract attention or show brilliance, but to communicate and to offer warmth” – which, by no coincidence, is also Richard Goode’s motto. Debussy’s ‘Children’s Corner’ is a collection of children’s stories in the fantasy genre. Schumann’s ‘Humoreske’ is not a comedy, but a series of character studies on a grand scale full of the contradictions typical of Schumann, over which he, in his own words, “had to laugh and cry at the same time”.