Pierre-Laurent Aimard

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Southbank Centre: Queen Elizabeth HallBelvedere Road, London, Greater London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

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Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)	La Lugubre Gondola for piano, S 200 no. 1
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)	Album Sonata in A flat major, WWV 85
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)	Nuages gris (Grey Clouds), S 199
Berg, Alban (1885-1935)	Piano Sonata in B minor, Op.1
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)	Unstern! Sinistre, disastro, S 208
Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915)	Piano Sonata no. 9 in F major, "Black Mass Sonata," Op.68
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)	Piano Sonata in B minor, S 178

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Twenty-first century Liszt from Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Paul Kilbey, 7th December

In around 1822, an eleven-year-old Franz Liszt performed for Beethoven. It’s claimed that Beethoven gave him his blessing and kissed him on the forehead. A lifetime later, in 1885, Liszt wrote La lugubre gondola, a harsh, drastically dissonant piano piece commemorating the death of Wagner.It’s easy to forget how short the nineteenth century was.