Perth Piano Sunday Brochure Sap17 - May 18

Welcome We are delighted to present our 5th roster of stellar performers – all of whom are special in their own way!

Perth Piano Sundays continues to provide the perfect day out in one of Scotland’s richest cultural destinations. Come for lunch, then hear a wonderful concert in the acoustically perfect Perth Concert Hall.

Some of the world’s finest players visit Perth for this exceptional series of piano concerts on a Sunday afternoon.

PerthPianoSundays Sep 2017 – May 2018 Selected Sundays at 3pm

I very much look forward to welcoming you to Perth for some truly memorable musical experiences.

TICKETS & INFORMATION

£22.50, £18.50, £14.50; concessions £20.50, £16.50, £12.50 (inc £1.50 booking fee per ticket) James Waters Creative Director, Classical Music, Horsecross Arts

under 26s/students £5

PerthPianoSundays is presented in partnership with BBC Radio 3

Buy tickets in advance for three concerts and your fourth is FREE Book a traditional two-course Sunday carvery before the concert for £12.50 (spaces limited)

VISITING US

Book a traditional two-course Sunday carvery before the concert £12.50

Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, Perth PH1 5HZ T: 01738 621031 CAR PARKING Kinnoull Street multi-storey is a pay and display car park a few minutes walk from Perth Concert Hall. There are a number of other car parks around the city centre, with most having no charge on Sunday.

Street parking is also free on Sundays.

Thanks to our partners and funders

tickets: 01738 621031 www.horsecross.co.uk

Horsecross Arts Ltd is registered in Scotland, no SC301328 and a charity no SCO22400.

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Richard Goode

Sun 24 Sep 2017: 3pm

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of the Perth Piano Sundays season. One The perfect way to launch our 5th ic. A concert which mus e istibl irres e som in s ician world’s very greatest mus art and Beethoven and ravishing tone contains classical beauty from Moz an A Richard Goode performance is ssy.

Debu colours from Janácek and uplifting spiritual experience! ard Goode at the keyboard. In an ‘the evening was dominated by Rich ncial Times Fina ce’ rman exquisitely nuanced perfo

Alexander Gavrylyuk Sun 8 Oct 2017: 3pm

Bach/Busoni Toccata and Fugue in D minor Haydn Sonata in B minor No 47 XVI:32 Chopin 6 Etudes Scriabin Sonata No 5 Rachmaninov 4 Preludes Rachmaninov Sonata No 2 (2nd edition)

There is nothing more exciting than a brilliant pianist playing Rachmaninov!

Add to that Busoni’s extraord inary take on Bach’s Chacon ne and music from that other great pianist Chopin and you have a thril ling programme for our debutant virtuoso Alex ander Gavrylyuk. He is a sho oting star in the international piano firmame nt and we are thrilled to pres ent him.

‘Alexander Gavrylyuk wowed Wigmore Hall’s lunchtime aud ience with a debut concert replete in masterful displays of pian ism, in the purest meaning of the word’ Bachtrack

Imogen Cooper

Sun 5 Nov 2017: 3pm

Beethoven Bagatelles Op 33 20 Haydn Sonata in C minor Hob. XVI/ La Stessissima’ Beethoven Variations on ‘La Stessa Thomas Adès Darknesse Visible Op 110 Beethoven Sonata in A flat major

was Mozart with the BBC SSO last year Imogen Cooper’s performance of ists pian loved best y’s toda of . One so wonderful that we invited her back ess Haydn’s Piano Sonatas are an endl offers us music by three masters. imed accla t mos the is Adès as Thom fund of wit, charm and invention, are perfectly set in a framework with British composer of today and they the great genius that is Beethoven. als will have been captivated ‘Anybody who attended those recit the way Cooper (left) struck by and , them of re by the rapt atmosphe deur and intimacy, its boldness, a balance between the music’s gran h delicacy and grace’ Daily Telegrap

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Alexei Volodin

Sun 10 Dec 2017: 3pm Schumann/Liszt Widmung Schumann Kreisleriana (dedicated to Chopin) Chopin Ballade No 2 (dedicated to Schumann) Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor (dedicated to Schumann)

An afternoon immersion in fabulous romantic piano music. A truly brilliant piece of programming has Alexei Volodin linking 3 great piano virtuosi and one of the truly great composers of piano music in Robert Schumann. Liszt’s B minor sonata is one of the touchstones of sheer pianistic brilliance.

‘Volodin is bold and juicy: his virtuosity is of the Soviet school, weight and power behind every note’ Independent

Scottish Ensemble with Royal Conservatoire

l Susan Tomes in Lecture and Recita Sun 1 Apr 2018: 3pm

I:6 Haydn Variations in F minor, Hob.XVI or Op 2 min F in 1 No ta Sona o Pian Beethoven .XVI:52 Hob Haydn Piano Sonata in E flat major,

as tas were published at the same time Haydn’s last and greatest piano sona g programme natin fasci this In n. hove Beet l pupi the first sonatas by his great nstructs n with early Beethoven. She also deco Susan Tomes juxtaposes late Hayd terpiece mas this h , explaining the way in whic Haydn’s marvellous F minor variations . is created before playing it complete interpretations itself, delivering the most ravishing ‘Tomes allowed the music speak for Scotsman The ce’ lgen indu or n tatio affec completely unfettered by

Sun 14 Jan 2018: 3pm

Dvo ák String Quintet No 2 in G major Mozart Piano Concerto No 12 in A major K414 Tippett Concerto for Double String Orchestra Jonathan Morton, director perform one of Mozart’s earliest The 2017 winner of the Jock Holden Memorial Mozart Piano Prize will of the Scottish Ensemble soloists the with opens which me great concertos at the core of a program Child of our Time, Tippett’s Concerto A as time same the at Written Dvorák. by ece masterpi a g performin for Double String Orchestra is one of his finest orchestral works. ‘a magical act of musical communion’ The Herald

Ll r Williams

Sun 11 Feb 2018: 3pm

Schubert 6 Moments Musicaux D78 0 Schubert Piano Sonata in B major D575 Schubert/Liszt 3 songs from Schw anengesang Schubert Four Impromptus D935

One of Perth’s favourite musicians returns! This is an all Schubert prog ramme with a Liszt twist. Ll r’s way with the classical repertoire allies musical integrity and vision with a formidable technique and sparkling interpreta tion. This programme shows us som e of Schubert’s very greatest late music in the context of some of his most charming earlie r works.

‘Simply heavenly playing’ The Gua rdian

Steven Osborne

Sun 25 Feb 2018: 3pm Prokofiev Ravel Berg Prokofiev

Sarcasms Miroirs Piano Sonata Piano Sonata No 8

Osborne has the cted the very finest pianists. Steven Prokofiev’s piano music has long attra the piano to push h vision to tackle these works whic technique and extraordinary musical lance Ravel’s terba coun They nce. brillia tion and pianistic its limits in search of dramatic emo very late the from ’s short, early piano sonata comes exquisitely colouristic Miroirs. Berg world onic harm and ical mus the d Schoenberg turne romantic period before his teacher upside down! chingly powerful’ The Guardian ‘some of Osborne’s playing was unflin

Alasdair Beatson

Sun 15 Apr 2018: 3pm

Beethoven 7 Bagatelles Op 33 Bartók from Mikrokosmos (selection ) Debussy Images, Book 2 Brahms Intermezzi Op 117 Erik Satie Embryons Desséchés Dohnányi Rhapsody in C Major

Perth born Alasdair Beatson offers us as wide-ranging and thought-p rovoking programme as you could hope for.

The rich romanticism of Dohnányi contrasts with the effortless classicism of Beethove n and the astringent rhythmic drive of Bartók counters the silky beauty of Debu ssy’s Images. Add in a bit of quirk y Satie and some late and mellow Brahms and you have a concert to die for!

‘Understated virtuosity from Alasdair Beatson at the Wigmore Hall’ Bac htrack

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Sun 13 May 2018: 3pm Debussy Ballade Debussy Tarentelle Debussy Clair de Lune Debussy Arabesque No 1 Debussy Images Book 1 Debussy l’Isle Joyeuse Debussy 12 Etudes

and the ays. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet is in dem A fantastic debut for Perth Piano Sund s apace grow s rding reco of e logu soloist. His cata world over as recitalist and concerto plete com a us give r he goes. Who better then to and he attracts rave reviews whereve e itativ med the from es rang ic mus enary year. This programme of Debussy in his cent ost pianists. forem y’s toda of one for case show to the sparkling and is the perfect account of L’isle joyeuse, leaping ‘Bavouzet concluded with a dazzling on the final note’ The Observer twirl l from the piano stool with a joyfu

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