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Guest Artist Series: Leslie Howard
23rd July 2022 | 7:00 pm
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LESLIE HOWARD | |
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Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)
Sonata No. 13 in E flat Major Op. 27 No. 1
I. Andante – Allegro – Andante
II. Allegro molto e vivace
III. Adagio con espressione
IV. Allegro vivace
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) / Franz Liszt (1811 – 1886)
Variations on a motif of Bach’s cantata ‘Weinen, Klagen’ S180
Anton Rubinstein (1829 – 1894)
Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 12
I. Allegro appassionato
II. Andante largamente
III. Moderato
IV. Moderato con fuoco
Duration
This concert will last approximately 60 minutes, with no interval.
Beginning with Beethoven’s Sonata una quasi fantasia No. 13 where movements are played one after another without a break and with each one composed in extreme contrast to the next, Professor Howard highlights the composer’s creative process, which started to break away from the typical structure of the classical sonata. Liszt’s deeply personal Variations on a motif of J S Bach’s ‘Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen’ dedicated to Anton Rubinstein offer a true feast of pianistic mastery and compositional prowess. Written in the same year as the death of Liszt’s daughter Blandine, the variations end with a quote from the Lutheran hymn ‘Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan’ (What God Ordains Is Always Good). Having released the world première recordings of all four of Rubinstein’s piano sonatas, Leslie Howard concludes his recital with Sonata in e minor No. 1, which to use his own words ‘is the product of a teenager who must have been quite a pianist already, it is beyond criticism’.