*** Cancelled *** Piano Explored – Mendelssohn and Saint-Saëns at St John's Smith Square, London on Thursday 7th January 2021

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* Cancelled * Piano Explored – Mendelssohn and Saint-Saëns

Add to my Calendar 07-01-2021 13:05 07-01-2021 15:05 36 *** Cancelled *** Piano Explored – Mendelssohn and Saint-Saëns *** Cancelled *** The seventh season of Piano Explored, postponed from December to January, opens with a charming one-movement Capriccio Brillant, which reveals the best of Mendelssohn’s sophisticated pianistic art. The gentle melancholy of the Andante and the contrasting dizzying arpeggios, chromatic runs and octave leaps of the Allegro will allow Howard Shelley to demonstrate his virtuosic skills and profound musicality. In this lunchtime concert, Mendelssohn is paired with Saint-Saëns, whose much-admired second piano concerto is a tour de force for any pianist. By turns tempestuous, flighty and lyrical, this concerto breaks convention by having each succeeding movement faster than the last in a structured accelerando, ending with an exhilarating conclusion. Berlioz described Saint-Saëns as ‘an absolutely shattering master pianist’, and in Howard Shelley we have our own master at work. Howard’s entertaining and informative introduction will be followed by a performance by the LMP with Howard directing from the piano. ‘[An] aristocratic command of the glittering keyboard pyrotechnics.’ Daily Telegraph St John's Smith Square, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St John's Smith Square
Smith Square
City of Westminster
London
SW1P 3HA
England

Thursday 7th January 2021
1:05 PM

Programme

Felix Mendelssohn – Capriccio brillant in B minor for Piano & Orchestra, Op.22
Camille Saint-Saens – Piano Concerto no.2 in G minor, Op.22

Performers

Howard Shelley – piano

London Mozart Players

Programme Note

*** Cancelled ***

The seventh season of Piano Explored, postponed from December to January, opens with a charming one-movement Capriccio Brillant, which reveals the best of Mendelssohn’s sophisticated pianistic art. The gentle melancholy of the Andante and the contrasting dizzying arpeggios, chromatic runs and octave leaps of the Allegro will allow Howard Shelley to demonstrate his virtuosic skills and profound musicality. In this lunchtime concert, Mendelssohn is paired with Saint-Saëns, whose much-admired second piano concerto is a tour de force for any pianist. By turns tempestuous, flighty and lyrical, this concerto breaks convention by having each succeeding movement faster than the last in a structured accelerando, ending with an exhilarating conclusion. Berlioz described Saint-Saëns as ‘an absolutely shattering master pianist’, and in Howard Shelley we have our own master at work. Howard’s entertaining and informative introduction will be followed by a performance by the LMP with Howard directing from the piano.

‘[An] aristocratic command of the glittering keyboard pyrotechnics.’ Daily Telegraph

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