Garrick Ohlsson
Sunday April 11 at 11.00am
Tickets: £9.45 - £15
Promoter: Harrogate International Sunday Series 2010
Venue: Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate
Chopin
Three Noctures Op.9
Sonata No.2 in B flat minor Op.35
Mazurkas Op.30 No.4
Scherzo No.2 in B flat minor Op.31
Two Polonaises Op.40
Mazurkas Op.7 Nos 1, 2 & 3
Waltz in A flat Op.42
Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, pianist Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. 2010 is the bicentenary of Chopin’s birth, and in celebration Ohlsson will be performing an all-Chopin recital, featuring some of his best-known works alongside some rarer treats. The Second Sonata is known for the famous ‘Funeral March’ of the second movement, but we also see a lighter side to Chopin in the beautifully rich Waltz. The programme concludes with the virtuosic and passionate Scherzo, completing a fitting tribute to a Romantic genius.
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