Behzod Abduraimov, Piano

“The most perfectly accomplished pianist of his generation” (The Independent) returns with a beautifully constructed program in his fifth Carnegie Hall recital. It begins with Brahms’s final four solo-piano works: the character pieces of Klavierstücke, Op. 119. Czerny’s elegant Variations on a Theme by Rode was first performed on our stage by Vladimir Horowitz in 1945, but it remains an exceedingly elusive hidden gem. A few all-time favorites round out the recital: Liszt’s “Dante” Sonata, an evocative single-movement masterpiece; Debussy’s Suite bergamasque, whose third movement is the beloved “Clair de lune”; and Stravinsky’s Three Movements from Pétrouchka, one of the piano repertoire’s most infamously difficult staples.