Details
Cadogan Hall
5 Sloane Terrace
London
SW1X 9DQ
England
Programme
Béla Bartók – Piano Sonata, Sz.80
Aleksandr Scriabin – Piano Sonata no.9 'Black Mass', Op.68
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata no.32 in C minor, Op.111
Performers
Jeremy Denk – piano
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Programme Note
Jeremy Denk is one of America’s foremost pianists - a musician the New York Times hails as someone ‘you want to hear no matter what he performs’. He makes his BBC Proms debut in a recital that puts Beethoven’s final piano sonata at its core. It’s a work that blends extrovert passion with a depth that characterises all of the composer’s late works, and is paired here with Bartók’s Piano Sonata, a piece strongly coloured by Hungarian folk melodies and rhythmic attack. We mark the centenary of Scriabin’s death with his most famous piano sonata, the ‘Black Mass’ - a disconcerting, phantasmagoric musical journey and a gleeful vision of horror. Jeremy Denk returns in Prom 60 to perform Henry Cowell’s iconoclastic Piano Concerto.
There will be no interval