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Samantha Ward & Maciej Raginia in Recital
1st April 2017 | 7:30 pm
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SAMANTHA WARD | MACIEJ RAGINIA |
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Programme
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Sonata in A major K208
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Sonata in A major D664
Robert Schumann (1810- 1856)
Arabesque in C Major Op. 18
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Nocturne in B Major Op. 62 No. 1
Nocturne in E Major Op. 62 No. 2
Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante Op. 22
Duration
This concert will last approximately 60 minutes, with no interval.
Artistic Director Samantha Ward opens the concert with one of Scarlatti’s beautiful 555 sonatas for keyboard, which attracted numerous admirers amongst composers such as Brahms, Bartok, Chopin and Liszt to name but a few. She follows it with Schubert’s tender Sonata in A major D664, written in the summer of 1819 when the composer was only 24 and Schumann’s Arabesque op 18.
The Romantic spirit prevails in the second half of the concert when Maciej Raginia offers one of Chopin’s last works, the 2 Nocturnes Op. 62, which are haunting and full of mysterious harmonies and textures. Both Nocturnes were completed in 1846, the very last year which Chopin spent in Nohant, the family home of his lover George Sand. Soon after, the couple separated and he wrote nothing of significance. The image of a lonely and heartbroken composer at Nohant disappears completely as soon as the first note of his Grande Polonaise Op. 22 is heard.
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