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Samantha Ward in Recital
26th March 2018 | 7:00 pm
£7 - £12Event Navigation
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SAMANTHA WARD | |
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Programme
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
4 Klavierstücke Op. 119
Intermezzo in B minor
Intermezzo in E minor
Intermezzo in C Major
Rhapsody in E flat Major
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Arabesque in C Major Op. 18
Symphonic Etudes Op. 13
Theme – Andante
Etude I – Un poco più vivo
Etude II – Andante
Etude III – Vivace
Etude IV – Allegro marcato
Etude V – Scherzando
Etude VI – Agitato
Etude VII – Allegro molto
Etude VIII – Sempre marcatissimo
Etude IX – Presto possibile
Etude X – Allegro con energia
Etude XI – Andante espressivo
Etude XII – Allegro brillante
Duration
This concert will last approximately 60 minutes, with no interval.
Artistic Director Samantha Ward inaugurates the Easter edition of the festival with a programme of some of the most revered piano masterpieces by Brahms and Schumann. A collection of four character pieces Op. 119 composed four years before Brahms’ death constitutes his last work written for solo piano. What he wrote to Clara Schumann about the opening Intermezzo: ‘Every bar and every note must sound like ritardando, as if one wanted to suck out melancholy out of each and every note, lustily […]’ shines a bright light on the poetic and personal content of these works. After a rubato driven and fleeting Arabesque, the audience is treated to a spellbinding display of virtuosity in Schumann’s early Opus 13. The Symphonic Etudes with all of their technical demands and dramatically interwoven outbursts of Schumann’s conflicting personality, are a testament of the composer’s investigation into the possibilities of achieving orchestral timbre on the piano and his experimentation with textures and colours.