Oxford May Music: Katya Apekisheva plays Mozart, Szymanowski and Chopin

Katya begins with one of Mozart’s most technically challenging, but also most elegant, sonatas. Chopin and his compatriot Szymanowski both loved the Polish folk-dance known as the mazurka. The latter wrote two sets of twenty; the former wrote around 70 but amazingly only 58 have been published. Katya concludes with a mighty Chopin work, the second Scherzo.