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Roberto Russo in Recital
27th March 2018 | 7:00 pm
£7 - £12Event Navigation
PERFORMER | |
ROBERTO RUSSO | |
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Programme
Roberto Russo (1966-)
8 Piano Preludes
C Major
A minor
A sharp minor (in memory of all victims of the war in ex-Yugoslavia)
G sharp minor (homage to Dmitri Shostakovich)
E flat Major
F Major
F minor
A sharp minor
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Piano Sonata in A Major D959
Allegro
Andantino
Scherzo. Allegro Vivace
Rondo. Allegretto
Duration
This concert will last approximately 60 minutes, with no interval.
Roberto Russo opens the recital with his own Preludes, written in 1995, linked to a neo-romantic style with their harmonies and melodies. They are a deeply personal work, influenced by the most important writers of the early 20th century, and they have been performed in Italy, Poland, Norway, Romania and the USA. Franz Schubert wrote his last three piano sonatas a few months before his death, and for a very long time they were considered too difficult for an audience. They were not published until ten years after Schubert’s death, and only in the second half of the 20th century did public and critical opinion call them masterpieces. In the first movement of Sonata in A Major the audience is caught in a harmonic labyrinth until its end. Profound but sweet, the second movement is also obscure in its central theme whilst a resignation and reconciliation with the world is present in the final two movements.