| Jonathan Biss | Piano |
Jonathan Biss explores the late piano music of Brahms from several different perspectives: via Chopin, Schumann and György Kurtág.
A composer’s late work doesn’t have to be solemn. In this beautifully-compiled second instalment of his exploration of composers’ ‘late style’, pianist Jonathan Biss sets Brahms’s masterly late piano music in the context of his predecessors, successors and his own youthful self.
Make no mistake, hearing Biss’s typically thoughtful take on Brahms’s late Intermezzi will be revelatory in its own right. But he’s conceived this programme laterally, flashing back to Brahms’s own youthful sonata alongside late Schumann and Chopin, and glancing forward to the brilliant, crystalline 21st century ‘games’ of the 77-year old György Kurtág to create an evening-long meditation on music and memory.
Tickets £15–30 plus booking fee. £3 booking fee per online transaction, £4 by phone.
Tickets on sale online from Wednesday 10 February 2016
