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Boris Giltburg piano
Bach, Chopin, Medtner and Ravel
Part of the Wigmore Hall Autumn Concerts 2022 Season
Add to my Calendar 07-10-2022 19:30 07-10-2022 21:30 36 Boris Giltburg piano Here Ravel is complemented by predecessors Bach (in an 1893 transcription by Ferruccio Busoni, who made a substantial number of Bach editions and arrangements) and Chopin, plus a rarity by the Russian composer and pianist Nicolas Medtner (1880-1951), who spent the last 15 years of his life in London but whose first cycle of Forgotten Melodies was composed in Germany between 1919 and 1922; we hear the first of seven individual pieces from the set. Wigmore Hall, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Wigmore Hall
36 Wigmore St
Marylebone
London
W1U 2BP
England
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach – Partita no.2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 (tr. piano)
Maurice Ravel – Pavane pour une Infante Defunté
Frédéric Chopin – Piano Sonata no.2 in B flat minor, Op.35
~ Interval ~
Nikolay Medtner – Forgotten Melodies I, Op.38
Maurice Ravel – Le tombeau de Couperin, piano
Performers
Boris Giltburg – piano
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Programme Note
Here Ravel is complemented by predecessors Bach (in an 1893 transcription by Ferruccio Busoni, who made a substantial number of Bach editions and arrangements) and Chopin, plus a rarity by the Russian composer and pianist Nicolas Medtner (1880-1951), who spent the last 15 years of his life in London but whose first cycle of Forgotten Melodies was composed in Germany between 1919 and 1922; we hear the first of seven individual pieces from the set.
