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London Mozart Players | Piano Explored: Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No 2

When
Wednesday December 1, 2021 at 13:05
Where
St John's Smith Square, London
Tickets
£20, students £5
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  1. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 2 in F Op 102 - Dmitry Shostakovich
  2. Symphonic Variations - César Franck

This will be Howard Shelley’s final concert for London Mozart Players' Piano Explored series, and he has chosen a very special concerto that perfectly showcases his stylistic elegance and profound musicality. Shostakovich’s second piano concerto, written as a gift for his son Maxim, is perhaps best-known for its lush slow movement, which recalls the tender, longing themes from Rachmaninoff’s own beloved second piano concerto. But it is also full of jaunty energy and Shostakovich family in-jokes, including an arpeggio passage similar to the finger exercises that fledgling piano students suffer. Howard Shelley and the London Mozart Players will whisk you through an exciting deconstruction followed by a full performance of the work.

As a rich counterbalance, we will also hear César Franck’s rarely performed Symphonic Variations. It has been described as one of the most perfect pieces ever written for piano and orchestra and, like a mini concerto, allows a piano virtuoso to show off their flair as these imaginative and romantic variations unfold.

Howard Shelley’s formidable musical talents will be on display in both these works, and aficionados won’t want to miss Howard’s final Piano Explored lunchtime performance.


Venue
St John's Smith Square
Smith Square
London
London
SW1P 3HA
England
@StJohnsSmithSq

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