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Details
1901 Arts Club
7 Exton Street
Waterloo
London
SE1 8UE
England
Tickets
Prices: £25, £20 concessions
Book Tickets
Programme
Franz Liszt – Three Concert Etudes: I. Il lamento
Benjamin Britten – Holiday diary suite, Op. 5
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata no.31 in A flat major, Op.110
Robert Schumann – Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op.26
Performers
Parvis Hejazi – piano
Programme Note
Surreal Masquerades is the title of Parvis Hejazi's debut at 1901 Arts Club. The award-winning, London-based German pianist will take you on a journey from the passion and sumptuous sound worlds of Liszt's most poetic etude Il lamento to the playfulness of Benjamin Britten's Holiday Diary, which the composer himself referred to as a set of impressions of a boy's pre-war seaside holiday.
The first half of the recital culminates in Ludwig van Beethoven's monumental penultimate Sonata op. 110. Poetic and thoughtful, reflective and full of dark humour, finishing with two glorious fugues, interspersed with a surreal and sorrowful Arioso dolente, the sonata will prepare the audience for the second half: Robert Schumann's glorious Faschingsschwank aus Wien, again a set of images, but this time from a carnival party in mid-19th century Vienna. We are immersed into a masquerade of dances, marches, poetic Schumannesque sound worlds, lyrical melodies, outpourings of high emotion and even the Marseillaise, in reference to the movement for German unity, inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution.
Parvis Hejazi will curate the programme and guide his audience through what will be a young artist's firework of sublime poetry, intense passion, and sparkling virtuosity.
