Piano Recital

The programme of the piano recital is less a linear narrative than an artfully woven tapestry of scenes, moods and inner monologues. It combines three great musical languages – at the heart of this concert evening are Frédéric Chopin's four ballads – independent masterpieces full of poetry, drama and pianistic brilliance. Instead of presenting them as a cycle, they are deliberately placed individually between the works of two other great composers – in order to highlight their individual character, their respective narrative power and emotional depth. Ludwig van Beethoven's Sonata Pathétique, with its passionate seriousness and formal clarity, forms a striking contrast to Chopin's free ballad form.

Claude Debussy's Children's Corner, on the other hand, brings lightness and subtle humour to the programme – an imaginative homage to the world of childhood, written with the eye of a mature master.

A concert full of contrasts and narrative diversity – with Chopin's ballads as both its centrepiece and its common thread.