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Mark Nixon in Recital
21st July 2018 | 6:45 pm
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MARK NIXON | |
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Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Sonata No. 12 in F Major KV 332
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro assai
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
6 Klavierstücke Op. 118
Intermezzo in A minor
Intermezzo in A Major
Ballade in G minor
Intermezzo in F minor
Romanze in F Major
Intermezzo in E flat minor
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Nocturne in D flat Major Op. 27 No. 2
Ballade No. 3 in A flat Major Op. 47
Duration
This concert will last approximately 60 minutes, with no interval.
South African pianist Mark Nixon presents much loved works by Mozart, Brahms and Chopin. Beginning with Sonata KV 332, a work of striking cantabile, vivid musical contrasts and lavish embellishments unusually written out by Mozart in the central Adagio, Mark puts Brahms’ Sechs Klavierstücke at the heart of his performance. Comprising four Intermezzi, a Ballade and a Romanze, all contrasting in mood, the six pieces are surreptitiously linked by a three-note motif, cleverly transformed so that each one stands as an individualised jewel. This is followed by Chopin’s D-flat Major Nocturne with an elegant ornamentation of its highly vocalised melody and Ballade No 3 in A flat Major inspired by Adam Mickiewicz’s poem Świtezianka. Whilst the composer has heavily redefined Nocturnes as a musical form departing from the simplicity of earlier compositions by John Field, he is often considered as a pioneer of the Ballade as an abstract musical form. The third Ballade by Chopin is a popular, impassioned piece which ends in the triumphant key of A flat Major after a superbly conceived coda.