Arielle Beck performs Schumann, Schubert, and Mendelssohn

Born in 2009 and supported by the likes of Martha Argerich and Stephen Kovacevich, the supremely talented pianist Arielle Beck is already at home on prestigious stages — like that of Paris's legendary Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, where she performs a solo recital of striking confidence and profound musicality. Her program includes two formidable piano sonatas: Robert Schumann's stormy and structurally complex No. 1 in F minor, stormy and structurally complex; and Schubert's posthumously published No. 14 in A minor, a moody and melancholy turning point in the composer's artistic maturity. For good measure, Beck rounds out her tour de force evening with what may be Felix Mendelssohn's most significant solo piano work: the Variations sérieuses, dazzlingly virtuosic but imbued with imposing gravitas.