| Ivo Pogorelić | Piano |
A rare chance to hear the legendary pianist Ivo Pogorelich, in his first recital in Royal Festival Hall since 1999.
He first shot to fame when Martha Argerich stormed out of the jury of the International Chopin Competition in 1980 because he had not been admitted to the final.
Of his concert in Edinburgh in 2010, The Guardian reported 'a rapt performance… during which time seemed to stand still'.
His concert opens with two grand-scale Romantic masterpieces - Liszt's so-called Dante Sonata, a magnificent evocation of the poet's powerful visions of heaven and hell, and Schumann's tenderFantasie Op.17.
The second half features Stravinsky's fairground pictures from his ballet Petrushka, followed by Brahms's sizzling variations on Paganini's most famous theme.
