Archived Event

Mozart, Schoenberg and Schumann
Jonathan Biss piano
Date
Wed 09 Dec 2015, 7.30pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
Availability

Artists

  • Jonathan Bisspiano

Programme

Interval

Encore

Overview

Jonathan Biss presents two great works from thefinal decade of Mozart’s life, travelling throughthe emotionally turbulent world of the composer’sPiano Sonata in C minor and exploring the harmonicdaring and contrapuntal invention of the late PianoSonata in F.

The American pianist also offers hislatest thoughts on Schumann’s Kreisleriana, a workcentral to his repertoire, and includes Schoenberg’siconoclastic Six Little Piano Pieces Op. 19.

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