Royal College of Music: Poetry & Piano
Monday 13 Nov 2017, 7.30pmAmaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, Royal College of Music, London
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Bely Petersburg, 1914 (Reading)
Prokofiev Visions fugitives op 22
Balmont Visions Fugitives, 1917 (Reading)
Babel Red Cavalry, 1926 (Reading)
Medtner Piano Sonata in A minor op 30
Prokofiev Sarcasms op 17
Shostakovich Piano Sonata no 1 op 12
RCM musicians perform avant-garde piano music from early 20th-century Russia, which both inspired and was inspired by revolutionary poets. Interspersed with readings by students from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, we hear defiant pieces from two young musical rebels, Prokofiev and Shostakovich, and the turbulent work Medtner’s friends nicknamed the 'war sonata'.
This concert is part of the Voices of Revolution: Russia 1917 series
