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Southbank Centre: Queen Elizabeth HallBelvedere Road, Londres, Greater London, SE1 8XX, Royaume-uni
Dates/horaires selon le fuseau horaire de London
Programme
| Medtner, Nikolaï (1880-1951) | 8 Fairy Tales | |
| Medtner, Nikolaï (1880-1951) | Fairy Tale for piano in B flat minor, Op.20 no.1 | |
| Medtner, Nikolaï (1880-1951) | Fairy Tale for piano in B minor, Op.20 no.2 | |
| Medtner, Nikolaï (1880-1951) | Fairy Tale for piano in E minor, Op.34 no. 2 | |
| Medtner, Nikolaï (1880-1951) | Fairy Tale for piano in A minor "Forest Spirit", Op.34 no.3 | |
| Medtner, Nikolaï (1880-1951) | Fairy Tale for piano in F minor "Russian Tale", Op.42 no.1 | |
| Medtner, Nikolaï (1880-1951) | Fairy Tale for piano in F minor, Op.26 no. 3 | |
| Medtner, Nikolaï (1880-1951) | Fairy Tale for piano in G sharp major, Op.42 no.3 | |
| Medtner, Nikolaï (1880-1951) | Fairy Tale No.4 in C sharp minor, op.35: "Blow, wind and crack your cheeks" from King Lear | |
| Prokofiev, Sergueï (1891-1953) | Sonate pour piano no. 3 en la mineur, Op.28 | |
| Rachmaninov, Sergueï (1873-1943) | Sonate pour piano no. 1 en ré mineur, Op.28 | |
Fairy tale atmosphere pervades an all-Russian musical evening graced by Alexei Volodin’s supreme technique. Nikolai Medtner’s Fairy Tales (Skazki) have a sweeping grandeur initially reminiscent of Rachmaninov, but which possess harmonic touches that are all Medtner’s own. Prokofiev’s single-movement Third Sonata is a short, energetic work written in 1917, using themes he had composed while a student a decade earlier. Volodin closes his programme with Rachmaninov’s first Piano Sonata – the lesser-known of the composer’s two works in the genre. It’s a work of swirling textures and powerful mood changes, which Rachmaninov originally planned as a programmatic sonata based on the Faust legend. Although he seems to have abandoned that idea, traces of this initial intention can still be heard in the tumultuous music.
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