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Nicholas Walker and Mily Balakirev

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Balakirev Day
Nicholas Walker piano
Programme & Song Text
Date
Sat 27 Apr 2024, 7.30pm
Tickets
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Duration

This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval

Availability

Artists

  • Nicholas Walkerpiano

Programme

  • Mily Balakirev
    1837-1910
      • Piano Sonata in B flat minor
      • Berceuse
      • Réminiscences de l’opéra La vie pour le czar
        (based on Mikhail Glinka)

Interval

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    1770-1827
      • String Quartet No. 13 in B flat Op. 130
        :
      • Cavatina (transcribed by Mily Balakirev)
  • Mily Balakirev
    1837-1910
      • Tamara
        (transcribed by Nicholas Walker)
      • Gondellied
      • Islamey

Encore

Overview

The second programme includes a major work in the shape of the 1905 sonata, as well as what remains the composer’s most famous composition - the exceptionally virtuosic fantasy Islamey, written in 1869 - and one of Walker’s own transcriptions.

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