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Elegy and Fantasy brings together two extraordinary artists for an evening of passion, poetry, and dramatic musical storytelling. Ontario-based pianist Charlotte Tang joins Japanese-Dutch fortepianist Riko Fukuda in a rare dialogue between performers, instruments, and eras.
Featuring music by Dussek, Schubert, and Schumann, this concert unveils the expressive power of early Romantic keyboard music through the voices of two remarkable historical instruments: an original English Broadwood fortepiano (1807) and a Viennese Conrad Graf fortepiano (1835).
The program is shaped around music born in an age of upheaval and imagination. The brilliant and restless Jan Ladislav Dussek composed amid the cultural turbulence of the French Revolution, forging a bold new emotional language for the piano. Riko Fukuda performs movements from the haunting Élégie harmonique and the dramatic Le retour à Paris, works filled with longing, exile, and return.
The evening culminates in Schumann’s monumental Fantasy — one of Romanticism’s most poetic and deeply personal masterpieces — performed by Charlotte Tang. Here, music becomes confession, dream, and transcendence.
The luminous English Broadwood and the expressive Viennese Graf emerge as perfect partners for this musical journey, inviting audiences to hear Romantic music as its composers themselves might have imagined it: immediate, intimate, and alive.
Featuring:
Riko Fukuda, Broadwood Fortepiano, 1807
Charlotte Tang, Graf Fortepiano, 1835
Programme:
“Élégie harmonique,” Op. 61 – Dussek
“Le Retour à Paris,” Op. 64 – Dussek
Grand Rondo, D. 951- Schubert
Fantasy, Op. 17 – Schumann
Event Artists
Riko Fukuda & Charlotte TangCéleste Music: Elegy and Fantasy
Date/Time
Sunday, June 14, 2026
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location
Old Town Hall
460 Botsford St
Newmarket, ON
Canada, L3Y 1T1
Price
$25-200
Phone
905-953-5122
Website
https://www.celestemusic.org/festival2026
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