Beethoven's final sonatas with preludes by Chopin, Shostakovich and Bach
Over four decades, James Lisney’s musical integrity and pianistic command have fuelled a career that has taken him seamlessly from concerto and recital soloist – to chamber musician and pianist director. Initiatives, such as his highly acclaimed Beethoven Project in Amsterdam, Leipzig, and Berlin - or his many recordings - have provided a platform for his wide-ranging musical sympathies.
Programme
Fryderyk Chopin Prelude, opus 45
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in E, opus 109
Dmitri Shostakovich Preludes, opus 34, nos 10-12
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in A flat, opus 110
Johann Sebastian Bach ‘Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring’ BWV 147 (arranged Myra Hess)
Ricercare a 3 from the Musical Offering, BWV 1079
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in c, opus 111
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
This is someone who can really give the mechanical box of wires and wood a singing soul.
- The Telegraph
Important Information
Venue: Stamford Arts Centre, Ballroom
Tickets: £22 (£15 under 18s)
Running time: 1 hour 45 mins (including interval)
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