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St Dunstan's Church
High Street
Mayfield
Kent
TN20 6AB
England
Programme
Jean-Philippe Rameau – Le Rappel des Oiseaux
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata no.23 in F minor 'Appassionata', Op.57
Franz Liszt – La Lugubre Gondola 1, S.200
Astor Piazzolla – Five Tango Sensations: no.3, Anxiety
Erik Satie – Gnossiennes
Maurice Ravel – Oiseaux tristes
François Couperin – Les Fauvettes Plaintives
Performers
Joanna MacGregor – piano
Programme Note
As a celebration of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, this recital culminates in Beethoven’s celebrated ‘Appassionata’ Sonata, the most technically challenging of Beethoven’s middle-period piano works. Beethoven’s Appassionata is approached by way of late-period Liszt, expressive and experimental in equal measure, and Liszt’s piano arrangement of Wagner’s most famous opera scene, the Liebestod from the end of Tristan & Isolde. The French-themed first half of the recital patchworks together Baroque music by Rameau and Couperin, impressionist works by Satie and Ravel, and tangos written in Paris by the Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla.
This evening’s recital is kindly sponsored by Mr and Mrs John and Valerie Buddle.