Archived Event

Stevenson
Igor Levit piano
Date
Mon 27 May 2019, 7.30pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 1 hour 20 minutes in duration, without an interval
Availability

Artists

  • Igor Levitpiano

Programme

Overview

Himself an exceptional pianist,the highly original and politicallycommitted British composerRonald Stevenson died in2015 at the age of 87. Writtenbetween 1960 and 1963 andcharacteristically ambitious,his vast Passacaglia, based onShostakovich’s musicalisation ofhis name in the form DSCH, isperhaps the largest single span ofpiano music ever composed.

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