Details
Purcell Room
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Rd
London
SE1 8XX
England
Programme
Sergei Rachmaninov – Elegie, Op.3 no.1
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – The Seasons: October
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Valse-Scherzo, Op.34
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Valse sentimentale, Op.51 no.6
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Melody, Op.42 no.3
Aleksandr Scriabin – Etude in D sharp minor, Op.8 no.12
Aleksandr Scriabin – Fantasie in B minor, Op.28
Igor Stravinsky – Septet
Sergei Rachmaninov – Etude-tableau in E flat minor, Op.39 no.5
Sergei Rachmaninov – Vocalise, Op.34 no.14
Sergei Rachmaninov – Trio élégiaque no.1 in G minor
Performers
Yulia Chaplina – piano / Artistic Director
Yuri Kalnits – Violin
Igor Yuzefovich – Violin
Mark Smith – Horn
Julia Morneweg – Cello
Timotheé Botbol – Cello
Peter Cigleris – C clarinet
Simone Tavoni – piano
Programme Note
The ‘quintessentially Russian’ (International Piano Magazine) pianist Yulia Chaplina curates a programme of Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Scriabin and Stravinsky to celebrate International Music Day.
In a concert dedicated to the cultural exchange between Russia and the UK, the programme is performed by artists from the UK, Russia, Italy, Germany and Switzerland.
Dubbed ‘impressively virtuosic with terrific control and powerful playing’ by The Classical Reviewer, Russian-British pianist Chaplina is the winner of seven international piano competitions.
This concert is kindly supported by the Rossotrudnichestvo, Russian Culture House in the UK.
Artists include Russian violinist Igor Yuzefovich, the new joint leader of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
He is joined by Russian violinist Yuri Kalnits is the two-time recipient of the prestigious Diapason d’Or award and British violist Roger Chase, has been praised by the Sunday Times for ‘outstanding expressive eloquence’.
Timothée Botbol, a Park Lane Group Young Artist and Concordia Artist from Switzerland, plays the cello, as does German musician Julia Morneweg, who has ‘striking communication of emotion and expressive fluidity’ according to MusicWeb International.
On wind, British clarinettist Peter Cigleris is the winner of the John Ireland Chamber music award, Welsh bassoonist Angharad Thomas is the winner of the John Fussell Award for Welsh Postgraduate Musicians, and British hornist Mark Smith is the winner of the Douglas Moore Horn Prize.
The piano is played by Simone Tavoni, Italian winner of the BBC pathway scheme 2016.