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Mark Nixon, Maciej Raginia & Samantha Ward: Solo & Two Pianos
29th March 2018 | 7:00 pm
£7 - £12Event Navigation
PERFORMERS | |
SAMANTHA WARD | MACIEJ RAGINIA |
MARK NIXON | |
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Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Sonata in D Major for Two Pianos KV448
Allegro con spirito
Andante
Molto Allegro
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Nocturne in D flat Major Op. 27 No. 2
James Wilder (1973-)
Nocturnal Images
To Sleep, perchance to dream
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Images (Book I)
Reflects dans l’eau
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Nocturne in C sharp minor Op. 27 No. 1
Peter Klatzow (1945-)
Night skies, distant waters
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
L’isle joyeuse L. 106
Duration
This concert will last approximately 60 minutes, with no interval.
The festival directors Samantha Ward and Maciej Raginia open the concert with Mozart’s popular Sonata KV 448, one of only a few works which he wrote for two pianos. In a solo programme inspired by night and water, Mark Nixon presents James Wilding’s visionary ‘To Sleep, perchance to dream’, composed in 2013 and inspired by Shakespeare’s Hamlet’s famous soliloquy. One of the many pieces that Debussy wrote about water, Reflets dans l’eau, follows, where the composer depicts water in its many states, particularly light refracting off the surface. Chopin’s first Nocturne from his Op. 27 is a dark piece with a sense of foreboding throughout and one that perfectly sets up Peter Klatzow’s ‘Night skies, distant waters’. This work, composed in 2011, is filled with many striking effects and a sense of longing in the melodic elements. Debussy’s L’isle Joyeuse closes the programme – an exciting showpiece that creates a kaleidoscopic impressionistic musical depiction of Watteau’s painting L’Embarquement pour Cythère.