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Details
1901 Arts Club
7 Exton Street
Waterloo
London
SE1 8UE
England
Programme
Claude Debussy – Estampes, L.100
George Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue (arr. Levine)
Modest Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition
Camille Saint-Saens – Danse Macabre in G minor, Op.40 (1874)
Frédéric Chopin – Ballade no.4 in F minor, Op.52
Performers
Baichuan Hui – Piano
Yura Zaiki – Piano
Programme Note
The invention of photography in the 19th century provided a new medium with which to capture reality, and changed the way people in general, and artists in particular, saw the world. Artists came to understand that reality is transient and that each moment is fleeting and limited - just like how a ‘snapshot’ captures a moment. Isn't there something in this understanding that resonates with music as an expression of the spiritual world - not recreating what’s visible but expressing what is invisible?
In this concert, Baichuan and Yura feature musical pieces which have particularly strong connection to the arts from the fin de siècle, inviting the audience to contemplate the beauty of life in its impermanence, offering a glimpse into the profound and the spiritual.
