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Artists
- Benjamin Frithpiano
- Heidi Rolfepiano
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Benjamin Frith and Heidi Rolfe
Image credit: © Shirley Harris
Archived Event
- Date
- Sat 05 Nov 2022, 7.30pm
- Tickets
- Archived Event
- Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Benjamin Britten1913-1976
- Mazurka elegiaca Op. 23 No. 2
- Franz Schubert1797-1828
- Divertissement à la hongroise in G minor D818
Interval
- Gustav Holst1874-1934
- The Planets Op. 32
Overview
Britten’s piece was commissioned in 1941 for the album Homage to Paderewski, marking the 50th anniversary of the pianist/composer/politician’s American debut. Composed in 1824, and actually begun in the Hungarian town of Zseliz (now Želiezovce in Slovakia), Schubert’s sizable, three-movement Divertissement makes use of genuine local folk material. Holst made his own two-piano version of his famous suite in 1914-6, before the work’s orchestration was completed.
