Sunday 3 October 2021
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
The piano masterpieces of Fauré and Prokofiev are haunting, dazzling, and revelatory.
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This series explores these composers in the context of their time: Fauré’s refined vision infuses his piano works with an arresting emotional power. Prokofiev’s acerbic 4th sonata combines
romanticism and visionary brilliance.
David Christophersen was born in Oslo, has broadcast for BBC Radio 3 and plays an unusually wide repertoire - 17 different solo programmes in the last three years alone- throughout the
UK at London’s St John’s Smith Square, Bristol St George’s, Edinburgh’s Reid Hall, Oxford’s Holywell Music Room, the Woburn Abbey Festival. He frequently programmes new music: Last
year, together with Vivian Choi, Derek Scurll and Dave Ellis, he premiered the award-winning Polish composer Marta Ptaszynska’s new work for two pianos and percussion Lune Stelle and,
together with the pianist Marie Noelle Kendall, presented Robin Holloway’s monumental 21st century classic for two pianos, Gilded Goldbergs, His recent tour with Prokofiev’s war sonatas
was described by The Scotsman as ‘exactly right’.
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Approximately 2 hours