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Nelson Goerner
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Archived Event

Balakirev, Handel and R Schumann
Nelson Goerner piano
Date
Mon 25 Mar 2024, 1.00pm
Tickets
Archived Event
Duration

This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval

Availability

Artists

  • Nelson Goernerpiano

Programme

Encore

Overview

The Argentinian pianist’s programme brings together Schumann’s 18 miniature pieces, which the composer began working on just a week after his secret engagement to Clara, with Balakirev’s Islamey which was described by music critic Harold C Schonberg as ‘at one time…considered the most difficult of all piano pieces and is still one of the knucklebusters’.

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