Artists
- Alessio Baxpiano
- Date
- Mon 17 Apr 2017, 1.00pm
- Duration
- This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Franz Schubert1797-1828
- Piano Sonata in A minor D784
- Aleksandr Skryabin1872-1915
- Piano Sonata No. 3 in F sharp minor Op. 23
- Maurice Ravel1875-1937
- La valse
Encore
- Fritz Kreisler1875-1962
- Liebesleid
Overview
Alessio Bax, described by The New Yorker as‘perhaps the most elegant of today’s young pianists’,places Skryabin’s Piano Sonata No. 3 at the heartof his lunchtime recital.
He frames the Russiancomposer’s dramatic vision of ‘States of the Soul’with Schubert’s majestic Piano Sonata in A minorD784 and Ravel’s virtuoso transcription for solopiano of La valse.
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert