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Katya Apekisheva ● Alfred Brendel ● Henry Goodman Ronan O’Hora ● Julian Joseph ● Stephen Kovacevich Noriko Ogawa ● Charles Owen ● Lucy ParhamMartin Roscoe ● Kathryn Stott ● Dénes Várjon ● Ashley Wass
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FRI 7 OCTFranz Liszt: From Exuberance to AsceticismLiszt Piano Sonata in B minor, S178
Alfred Brendel in conversation with Alan Rusbridger
Alfred Brendel speaker Dénes Várjon piano
7:30pmDuration: 120 mins (60 mins lecture; 35 mins performance; 25 mins interview), interval£16.50 – £24.50 | Savers £9.50*
Alfred Brendel, one of the greatest and most thoughtful of all Liszt interpreters, shares his unique insights, perceptions and opinions into an enduring artistic legacy. The evening culminates in a performance of Liszt’s legendary B Minor Piano Sonata by Dénes Várjon.
SAT 8 OCTJS Bach: Keyboard PartitasJS Bach Partita No. 1 in B flat, BWV 825 Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826 Partita No. 4 in D, BWV 828Charles Owen piano
11:30amDuration: 80 mins, no interval£16.50 (incl. tea or coffee) | £9.50 Savers*
The six partitas represent the very summit of JS Bach’s keyboard creations in the dance suite genre. An abundance of imaginative invention, breathtaking counterpoint and sheer variety fill the traditional Baroque dances with a richness unthinkable by most other composers of the period. Charles Owen has studied and performed these Partitas intensely in recent years, leading to a CD recording which will be released to coincide with this morning’s recital for which he has chosen to play three of the best known.
The London Piano Festival is a brand new celebration of the piano created by Katya Apekisheva and Charles Owen. These two highly-acclaimed pianists have enjoyed extensive performing careers as soloists, chamber musicians and a widely admired duo partnership. Their shared love of the instrument has led them to curate this weekend especially for the city’s many piano lovers.
With such an enormously diverse, endlessly fascinating repertoire to choose from, the possibilities for exciting programming are endless.
This wealth of choice will be reflected throughout the eight concerts that have been created for this inaugural festival. The music will range from Bach, Busoni and Rachmaninoff to Messiaen and Piazzolla. A particular highlight will be the world première of a new two-piano work by the American composer Nico Muhly.
To present those works, Charles and Katya have brought together some of the world’s leading pianists. Artists will include the legendary Alfred Brendel lecturing on Liszt, Kathryn Stott performing her signature French repertoire, Noriko Ogawa bringing the joys of piano music to the younger generation, and Julian Joseph treating us to the best of contemporary jazz. At the heart of the festival, a wonderful group of players will explore the late nineteenth- and twentieth-century duo repertoire in a wide-ranging gala, including Stephen Kovacevich in his first Kings Place appearance.
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The French F Sharp ConnectionFauré Nocturne No. 11 in F-sharp minor, Op. 104 No. 1Ravel SonatineMessiaen ‘Le baiser de l’Enfant-Jésus’ from Vingt regards sur l’Enfant-JésusDutilleux Piano Sonata (1946–48)Kathryn Stott piano
2:00pm Duration: 60 mins, no interval£16.50 | Savers £9.50*
Kathryn Stott has long been admired as an outstanding exponent of the French piano repertoire. For this recital, She will play four multi-faceted works from the twentieth century all connected by their shared tonality – the luminous key of F sharp.
Impromptus: Chopin, Scriabin, FauréScriabin 2 Impromptus, Op. 12 Fauré Impromptu in E flat, Op. 25 / Impromptu in F minor, Op. 31 / Impromptu in A flat, Op. 34/ Impromptu in F sharp minor, Op. 102Scriabin 2 Impromptus, Op. 14 Chopin Impromptu in A flat, Op. 29 / Impromptu in F sharp, Op. 36 / Impromptu in G flat, Op. 51/ Fantasie-Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op. posth. 66Katya Apekisheva piano
4:00pm Duration: 55 mins, no interval£16.50 | Savers £9.50*
The impromptu form emerged during the heady early days of Romanticism; the sense of improvisation and spontaneous artistic creation seemed to match the spirit of those times. Katya Apekisheva explores the more familiar Chopin Impromptus together with lesser-known works.
Two-Piano GalaBusoni Fantasia contrappuntistica (O’Hora & Roscoe) Debussy Lindaraja; Prélude à l’apres-midi d’un faune (Kovacevich & Owen)Rachmaninoff Suite No. 1 (Owen & Apekisheva)Ravel La Valse (O’Hora & Wass)Nico Muhly Fast Patterns (Owen & Apekisheva / World Premiere)Milhaud Le Boeuf sur le Toit (Apekisheva & Wass)Piazzolla Tangos (Stott & Wass)Grainger Fantasy on Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess (Stott & Roscoe)
7:00pm Duration: 150 mins, with two intervals£19.50 – £44.50 | Savers £9.50*
Tonight’s concert brings together a wonderful group of pianist friends and colleagues to explore the riches, complexities and joys of music for two pianos.
The works chosen are almost exclusively from the 20th century and include two French orchestral masterpieces in their initial, pianistically-revealing versions. A number of rarities are present including the extraordinary Fantasia Contrappuntistica by Busoni, a true homage to the works of JS Bach and a piece greatly admired and recorded by Alfred Brendel at the beginning of his career.
Rachmaninoff’s early Suite No. 1 is by turns hauntingly Russian, quasi Wagnerian and strikingly minimalist in its evocation of ecstatic passion, obsessional grief and the clangorous sounds of Orthodox Easter festivities.
The third part of the concert is designed to add a fun, extended encore-like atmosphere to the proceedings with Nico Muhly’s Fast Patterns receiving its world premiere. This will be followed by the Roaring Twenties excitement of Milhaud’s Le Boeuf sur le Toit, a selection of sultry Piazzola Tangos and will finish with the evergreen melodies of Gershwin’s opera Porgy & Bess arranged for two pianos by the Australian virtuoso Percy Grainger.
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SUN 9 OCTThe Magical World of the Piano – Family Concerts with Noriko Ogawa
10:00am 10–10.30am: For ages 2–5 11–11.30am: For ages 2–512–12.45am: For Ages 6+£5.50 Children, £7.50 Adults, £17.50 Family of 4, £20.50 Family of 5
Noriko Ogawa takes us on a fascinating and enthralling journey through the rich world of musical styles, emotions and images; ‘music like paintings’, ‘scary pieces’, ‘very fast playing’ and many others will be on the menu.
Rêverie: The life and loves of Claude DebussyLucy Parham pianoHenry Goodman narrator
11:30am Duration: 90 mins, with an interval £16.50 (incl. tea or coff ee) | Savers £9.50*
Rêverie is the fourth ‘Composer Portrait’ from pianist Lucy Parham. A crucial element of Debussy’s complex intellectual and emotional world was an entangled love life that brought illicit trysts in Jersey, a brush with a revolver and even a suicide attempt...
Julian Joseph in Concert
2:30pm Duration: 60–80 mins, no intervalOnline Price: £16.50 | Savers £9.50
For the London Piano Festival’s closing concert, Julian Joseph will create a unique mixture of pieces to include a selection of his own compositions linked with well-loved jazz standards by Gershwin, Ellington and Porter.
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