Endgame I - James Lisney, piano: Late music by Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert & Chopin at West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge on Wednesday 16th October 2019

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Endgame I - James Lisney, piano

Late music by Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert & Chopin

Add to my Calendar 16-10-2019 20:00 16-10-2019 22:00 36 Endgame I - James Lisney, piano In aid of The Amber Trust www.ambertrust.org"Amber’s vision is to give blind and partially sighted children the best possible chance to fulfil their musical aspirations.”The late works of composers, artists and writers can be intransigent and contradictory, sometimes valedictory, but often display an exceptional aesthetic mastery and distilled artistic focus.In ‘Endgame’, a series of concerts at venues across the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and the Czech Republic, James Lisney explores the notion of ‘Late Style’ through the work of four composers particularly close to his heart. This music demonstrates that lateness is not just about temporal maturity but is also an attitude of mind; here there is the sense of a life lived with intensity, that time is of the essence..."Lisney...made of these sonatas a phoenix, boundlessly expressing a glorious rebirth of Beethoven’s creativity, re-animating the very phrases of his musical processes in all their enchanting, mercurial, forceful, kaleidoscopic variety – brusque and blunt, longing and tender, ineffable and sublime. One felt that all emotions human-beings had ever felt were incomparably here – and, further, some that had been felt only by this extraordinary man and, maybe, just a few others. Lisney gave us a journey of the soul."The Classical Source "I have nothing but praise for James Lisney`s piano playing; he combines velvet touch and wide range of colour with complete understanding of phrasing and dynamic shading. This is someone who can really give the mechanical box of wires and wood a singing soul."The Telegraph West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge DD/MM/YYYY

Details

West Road Concert Hall
11 West Road
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB3 9DP
England

Wednesday 16th October 2019
8:00 PM

Programme

Joseph Haydn – Piano Sonata in C major, Hob XVI:50
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata no.30 in E major, Op.109
Frédéric Chopin – Nocturnes, Op.62
Franz Schubert – Piano Sonata no.19 in C minor, D.958

Performers

James Lisney – piano

Programme Note

In aid of The Amber Trust www.ambertrust.org
"Amber’s vision is to give blind and partially sighted children the best possible chance to fulfil their musical aspirations.”

The late works of composers, artists and writers can be intransigent and contradictory, sometimes valedictory, but often display an exceptional aesthetic mastery and distilled artistic focus.

In ‘Endgame’, a series of concerts at venues across the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and the Czech Republic, James Lisney explores the notion of ‘Late Style’ through the work of four composers particularly close to his heart. This music demonstrates that lateness is not just about temporal maturity but is also an attitude of mind; here there is the sense of a life lived with intensity, that time is of the essence...

"Lisney...made of these sonatas a phoenix, boundlessly expressing a glorious rebirth of Beethoven’s creativity, re-animating the very phrases of his musical processes in all their enchanting, mercurial, forceful, kaleidoscopic variety – brusque and blunt, longing and tender, ineffable and sublime. One felt that all emotions human-beings had ever felt were incomparably here – and, further, some that had been felt only by this extraordinary man and, maybe, just a few others. Lisney gave us a journey of the soul."
The Classical Source

"I have nothing but praise for James Lisney`s piano playing; he combines velvet touch and wide range of colour with complete understanding of phrasing and dynamic shading. This is someone who can really give the mechanical box of wires and wood a singing soul."
The Telegraph

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