Artists
- Yevgeny Sudbinpiano
- Date
- Fri 09 Jun 2017, 7.00pm
- Duration
- This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Aleksandr Skryabin1872-1915
- Vers la flamme Op. 72
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky1840-1893
- Nocturne in F major Op. 10 No. 1
- The Seasons Op. 37b:
- June
- November
- Franz Liszt1811-1886
- Études d’exécution transcendante S139:
- Harmonies du soir
Interval
- Domenico Scarlatti1685-1757
- 6 Sonatas
- Nicolas Medtner1880-1951
- Forgotten Melodies, Cycle II Op. 39:
- No. 5 Sonata tragica
Overview
Melodic simplicity and harmonic complexitycombine in Skryabin’s late Vers la flamme to createa metaphysical meditation on the purifying powerof fire.
Yevgeny Sudbin’s scintillating programmeembraces other works of transcendent eloquence,from Tchaikovsky’s rhapsodic little Nocturne, writtenin Nice in the winter of 1871/72, to Medtner’sdramatic Sonata tragica Op. 39 No. 5.