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Samantha Ward & Sam Armstrong: works for two pianos
4th August 2017 | 7:15 pm
£6 - £12Event Navigation
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SAMANTHA WARD | SAM ARMSTRONG |
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Programme
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (version for two pianos)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Symphonic Dances Op. 45 (version for two pianos)
Non allegro
Andante con moto (Tempo Di Valse)
Lento assai – Allegro vivace
Duration
This concert will last approximately 60 minutes, with no interval.
The artistic director of the festival, Samantha Ward joins forces with British pianist Sam Armstrong in a rarely performed programme of two piano works. Inspired by the poem L’après-midi d’un faune by Stéphane Mallarmé and originally written in 1894 as a symphonic poem for orchestra, Debussy’s Prélude is considered to be the birth of modern music. While this version made its way back to literature in Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain as Hans Castorp’s favourite recording, the piano version has no less of the allure, colour or imagination to offer. Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances, his last composition, started its life as an orchestral suite in three movements. The piece if full of dark, grotesque harmonies and allowed Rachmaninoff to express his nostalgia for the homeland he had known and delve deeper into his fascination with religious chants of the Russian orthodox church.
TICKETS: £6-12
FREE ENTRY for the festival’s participants.