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St Cyprian's Clarence Gate
Glentworth Street
Marylebone
London
NW1 6AX
England
Tickets
Prices: £15, £10 concessions
Book Tickets
Programme
Sergey Prokofiev – Sarcasms, Op.17
Claude Debussy – Estampes, L.100
Frédéric Chopin – Preludes, Op.28
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata in A major, Op.2, No.2
Performers
David Brain – piano
Programme Note
There is almost nowhere else to put the fiery piano suite Sarcasms than at the very beginning of a varied programme, such is the assault the twenty-one year old Prokofiev unleashes on the listener. Yet there is much tunefulness to be had amongst all the harmonic anarchy.
Of the three early Sonatas Beethoven dedicated to Joseph Haydn, the second in A major probably appears least often on concert prgrammes. The drama is altogether more internalized, the urbanity and ingenuity of much of the writing being perhaps more prophetic of the later works.
There will be an interval with free refreshments
Chopin's familiar twenty-four Preludes are highly sophisticated creations from the composer's full maturity, remarkable for their rapid presentation of highly contradictory psychological states. The concert ends with an evocation of the Far East, Spain and France in the important triptych Estampes; a true watershed in Debussy's piano oeuvre from which all the later Impressionist masterworks emanated.
