Details
Wigmore Hall
36 Wigmore St
Marylebone
London
W1U 2BP
England
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach – Partita no.2 in C minor, BWV 826
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata no.22 in F major, Op.54
Ronald Stevenson – Peter Grimes Fantasy on themes from Britten
Sergei Rachmaninov – Etudes-tableaux Op.39
Performers
Igor Levit – piano
Programme Note
Pianophiles await Igor Levit’s performances with eager anticipation, ready to experience the spontaneity and poetic insights of his interpretations.
He opens his programme with one of Bach’s best-loved keyboard works before illuminating the concise thematic development of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in F Op. 54. Levit evokes the soul and natural beauty of his native Russia in the Etudes-tableaux Op. 39, written shortly before Rachmaninov joined the ranks of refugees fleeing the Bolshevik Revolution.
Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust