Florian Mitrea - Tales of Life at The Royal Over-Seas League, London on Friday 25th November 2022

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Florian Mitrea - Tales of Life

Add to my Calendar 25-11-2022 13:00 25-11-2022 15:00 36 Florian Mitrea - Tales of Life Storytelling has always been at the heart of music. Whether it is declared or not, music always has a message to tell, and it does so brilliantly without words, but merely with sounds and moods. This programme begins with the autobiographical ‘Pathetique’ Sonata in which Beethoven pours his grief over the deafness that was engulfing him. The sombre mood continues into Toduta’s Passacaglia, a Christmas story that mixes Christianity with Eastern superstitions and spirituality. Liszt’s Second Ballade tells the Greek myth of Hero and Leander, a Romeo and Juliet love story from ancient Greece, a tale about passion, divine wrath, human judgement, but above all, unending, pure love. Finally, the Spanish Rhapsody, a piece Liszt composed longer after he stopped touring and on which he spent much time working, is a whirlpool of folk dances and songs, the type of music that has always carried peoples’ stories, be they stories of sorrow or of joy. Florian Mitrea is winner of the 2018 ROSL Annual Music Competition Keyboard Prize. Supported by the ProPatria Festival  The Royal Over-Seas League, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

The Royal Over-Seas League
Park Place
St James's, Westminster
London
SW1A 1LR
England

Friday 25th November 2022
1:00 PM

Programme

Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata no.8 in C minor 'Pathétique', Op.13
Sigismund Toduta – 12 Variations on a Romanian Christmas carol: Passacaglia
Franz Liszt – Ballade no.2 in B minor, S.171
Franz Liszt – Rhapsodie Espagnole, S.254

Performers

Florian Mitrea – Piano

Programme Note

Storytelling has always been at the heart of music. Whether it is declared or not, music always has a message to tell, and it does so brilliantly without words, but merely with sounds and moods. This programme begins with the autobiographical ‘Pathetique’ Sonata in which Beethoven pours his grief over the deafness that was engulfing him. The sombre mood continues into Toduta’s Passacaglia, a Christmas story that mixes Christianity with Eastern superstitions and spirituality. Liszt’s Second Ballade tells the Greek myth of Hero and Leander, a Romeo and Juliet love story from ancient Greece, a tale about passion, divine wrath, human judgement, but above all, unending, pure love. Finally, the Spanish Rhapsody, a piece Liszt composed longer after he stopped touring and on which he spent much time working, is a whirlpool of folk dances and songs, the type of music that has always carried peoples’ stories, be they stories of sorrow or of joy.

Florian Mitrea is winner of the 2018 ROSL Annual Music Competition Keyboard Prize.

Supported by the ProPatria Festival

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