Wednesday 9th and Thursday 24th July
£20
7.30pm, Doors 7pm
Rupert returns to the Music in the Malthouse series. Movements explores the symbiotic relationship between music and dance across four centuries of keyboard writing.
The curtain lifts with Bach’s first partita and its presentation of the principal dances of the baroque and late renaissance period with the Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Minuet and lively Gigue. Rameau weaves a series of intricate variations from the French Gavotte. The first movement finishes with a selection of Chopin’s most famous Polish dances, the Polonaise, Mazurka and Waltz.
Ginastera’s pulsing Argentinian rhythms begin the second movement before the Tango and Oriental Dance by Albéniz and Granados. The Russian segment bursts to life with the first movement of Stravinsky’s Petruschka suite and concludes with Rachmaninov’s Polka, a virtuosic and humorous dance dedicated to his father Vasily. The programme concludes with Ravel’s colourful and inventive La Valse, the composer writing at one point in his ballet score,“we are dancing on the edge of volcano”.
A wide-ranging programme which embraces the variety, joy and passion of the human desire to dance. Performed and presented by Steinway Artist Rupert Egerton-Smith, described as a ‘pianist and musician of the highest calibre’ (New York Concert Review).
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