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Adelaide Hills
Benjamin Grosvenor | UKARIA Cultural Centre
Adelaide Hills
From $35.00
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British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor is an international sensation, heralded as a 'genius who has reached the height of his interpretative powers' (The Spectator). Renowned for both his virtuosity and poetic sensitivity, Grosvenor makes his much-anticipated UKARIA debut in this recital featuring three giants of the solo piano repertoire.
Beginning with a sonata that flummoxed Schumann – Frédéric Chopin's ambitious and convention-defying Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35 – Grosvenor will then delve into the world of literary-adjacent music. Ravel's 1908 work Gaspard de la nuit takes three poems – Ondine, Le gibet, and Scarbo – from Aloysius Bertrand's collection of the same name and transforms them into three darkly atmospheric movements of fiendish difficulty. The result is a suite that the legendary pianist Alfred Cortot described as 'one of the most extraordinary examples of instrumental ingenuity ever produced.'
To close the program, Grosvenor presents Modest Mussorgsky's beloved Pictures at an Exhibition in its original 1874 version for solo piano. Dedicated to the composer's deceased friend, the artist and architect Viktor Hartmann, the ten-piece suite mimics the experience of touring an exhibition of Hartmann's work at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg, each colourful miniature inspired by a painting.
Beginning with a sonata that flummoxed Schumann – Frédéric Chopin's ambitious and convention-defying Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35 – Grosvenor will then delve into the world of literary-adjacent music. Ravel's 1908 work Gaspard de la nuit takes three poems – Ondine, Le gibet, and Scarbo – from Aloysius Bertrand's collection of the same name and transforms them into three darkly atmospheric movements of fiendish difficulty. The result is a suite that the legendary pianist Alfred Cortot described as 'one of the most extraordinary examples of instrumental ingenuity ever produced.'
To close the program, Grosvenor presents Modest Mussorgsky's beloved Pictures at an Exhibition in its original 1874 version for solo piano. Dedicated to the composer's deceased friend, the artist and architect Viktor Hartmann, the ten-piece suite mimics the experience of touring an exhibition of Hartmann's work at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg, each colourful miniature inspired by a painting.
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Price
From $35.00 to $70.00
Adult $70 | Concession $65 | Student $35
