Beethoven Cycle 32 piano sonatas, by Alexei Eremine
Next concert, March 14th.
The Museum of Portuguese Music - Casa Verdades de Faria hosts a cycle dedicated to the 32 piano sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven.
Compiled and performed by pianist Alexei Eremine, the program is presented in three parts, until 2027.
In November 2025, the inaugural concert took place under the title The Visionary. In 2026, the program continues with five concerts that make up the second part of this cycle. In 2027, the bicentenary of Beethoven's death, another five concerts complete the initiative.
Hans von Bülow, "the great pianist, great conductor and first interpreter of all of Beethoven's sonatas, called them the New Testament. I will try to prove that he was quite right," reveals Alexei Eremine.
Concerts 2026
March 14 | 5pm – The Masters and the Students
May 23 | 5:00 PM - Op. 10
July 4th | 5:00 PM - First Final
September 26th | 5:00 PM - Quasi una fantasia
November 14th | 5:00 PM - The New Path
Free admission subject to room capacity – 60 seats
Reservations and information: mmp@cm-cascais.pt or 214 815 904 (call to a national landline).
Tickets must be collected on the day of the event.
Organized by: Cascais Municipal Council
Beethoven - 32 Piano Sonatas
March 14th | 5:00 PM
The Masters and the Students
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)
Sonata Op. 2 No. 2
Sonata Op. 2 No. 3
Sonata Op. 7
Alexei Eremine | Piano
Alexei Eremine
Born in Moscow in 1964. He began studying piano at the age of six at the Gnessin Music School, completing his advanced studies at the Gnessin Pedagogical Institute in the classes of Alexander Satz (piano) and Valeri Samoliotov and Irina Anastasieva (chamber music). With the Gnessin Trio, which he formed at that time, he toured several cities in the Soviet Union. In 1990, he participated, with Martha Arguerich, A. Rabinovitch, and A. Batagov, in a CD of music by A. Rabinovitch, which was awarded the Diapason d’Or. He is a founding member of the Moscow Piano Quartet, the first ensemble of its kind in Russia, created in 1989, with which he has performed numerous concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as tours in Latvia and Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Greece, Japan, and Benelux. The group has also participated in the Estoril, Sintra, Algarve, Alcobaça, Mafra, Assisi, Palma de Mallorca, Macau, and Kreuth festivals, among others, and has resided in Cascais since 1993 as a Resident Quartet.
Alexei Eremine is co-artistic director of the Castelo Branco Festival and has performed with musicians such as Natalia Gutman, M. Berlinskaia, V. Samoliotov, and M. Gerónimo. In 1998, he organized a concert for seven pianos in Porto, bringing together Pedro Burmester, António Rosado, Luis Miguel Borges Coelho, Fausto Neves, Jaime Mota, and Luis Filipe Sá, performing a world premiere of a work by Vladimir Martinov and works by Steve Reich and Morton Feldman, in a performance recorded on CD by the BMG label.
He was a professor at the Gnessin Institute and the Arcos do Estoril Professional School, and currently teaches at the National Higher Academy of Orchestra.
