Event
The Sonata - Mapping Emotions in Music : Westlake
- Date: Wednesday, 19 October 2016, 6pm
- Venue: Melbourne Recital Centre, Primrose Potter Salon — Cnr Southbank Blvd & Sturt St, Southbank, VIC
- Tickets: Standard: $39 | Concession: $29 (booking fees apply) — Tickets can be purchased online or by phone on (03) 9699 3333
Event Details
Three thrilling sontatas by Beethoven, Westlake, and Prokofiev
In this concert, acclaimed New York-based Australian pianist, Andrea Lam, presents three thrilling and very different sonatas.
The programs opens with the first of Beethoven’s 32 sonatas, revered as a touchstone of the form. By contrast, Nigel Westlake’s work from 2004 is a single-movement sonata growing from quiet contemplation to virtuosic accents of jazz and rock and roll. Prokofiev’s powerful Piano Sonata No.6 – the first of his Three War Sonatas – is a magnificent work in the traditional form, with Sviatoslav Richter describing how it yet “with wild audacity… broke with the ideals of Romanticism and introduced into [Prokofiev’s] music the terrifying pulse of twentieth-century music.”
Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre
Program
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No.1 in F minor Op.2 No.1
Nigel Westlake
Piano Sonata No.2
Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Sonata No.6 in A, Op.82
Featured non-Australian music: Beethoven, Prokofiev
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (03) 9699 3333
Featured Australian Works
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| Piano sonata no. II (solo piano) (2004) by Nigel Westlake — performed by Andrea Lam |
Featured artists
- Performer Andrea Lam
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