Duigan pays homage to Beethoven

CHRISTOPHER Duigan’s Music Revival February concert is at St Agnes Church, Kloof, on Tuesday, 25 February at 7.30pm.

The pianist presents a beautiful programme of classical piano music, entitled Fantasy – a pianistic ‘tour de force’ features classical repertoire that highlights fantastical, impulsive and imaginative musical elements as presented in the music of composers Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Aleksander Scriabin and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

2020 marks the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth (in December 1770) hence many of Duigan’s Music Revival concert programmes for the year will include music by this inspirational composer. In this solo piano recital, Duigan includes Beethoven’s Sonata quasi una fantasia in E-flat major Op 27 No 1, companion to the celebrated Moonlight Sonata Op 27 No 2.

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This together with Schumann’s Fantasie Op 17, one of the most impassioned works of the 19th century which Schumann intended as a homage to Beethoven, are the centre pieces on the programme.

Chopin’s Barcarolle Op 60 and music by Russian romantic composers Aleksander Scriabin, including his Sonata No 4, and Sergei Rachmaninoff, a selection of Etudes-Tableaux (or picture studies) complete the programme.

Tickets are R130 which includes refreshments at interval. For bookings email: booking@musicrevival.co.za or SMS or WhatsApp 083 417 4473.

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