Checkmate! Live with introduction speech (by Maxime Goulet)
140:00 Presentation of the Chess Pieces
5:23 A Chess Game for Piano and Orchestra
18:41 Musicians and Composer Taking a Bow
Checkmate! is a short concerto for solo piano and orchestra composed by Maxime Goulet. The piece contains six short melodic themes, each of them representing a specific chess piece: king, queen, bishop, rook, knight, pawn. These short themes are played at the beginning of the work, to introduce them to the audience. The full work is based exclusively on the use of these six themes, alternating between the orchestra and the piano. The sequence of themes follows the chess moves of the famous game played on February 10th, 1996, in Philadelphia, by Garry Kasparov against Deep Blue, a computer developed by IBM. For the first time in history, a chess-playing computer defeated a reigning world champion. The piano part is based on Kasparov’s moves (the black pieces) and the orchestra part is based on those of Deep Blue (the white pieces). Of course, during the piece, the piano and orchestra will often play at the same time. However, whoever is playing the “chess move” will always remain in the foreground with one of the main themes.
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Composed by Maxime Goulet
http://maximegoulet.com
Premiered on September 2018 by
ROCO
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Piano: Lara Downes
http://www.laradownes.com
Conductor: Paul Watkins
http://paulwatkinsmusic.com
Video by Creative Bearings
https://creativebearings.com
Music and video commissioned by ROCO
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