Simon Trpčeski in recital

,Barbican Hall
Simon Trpceski standing near piano

No pianist combines both delicacy and panache like the Macedonian virtuoso Simon Trpčeski. This is a flamboyantly colourful recital from a pianist with charisma – and virtuosity – to spare.

His programme ranges from the deep poetry of Brahms’s homage to his beloved Schumann to the iron and steel of Prokofiev’s wartime Sonata. But in between come some magical surprises.

What other pianist would have thought of following Brahms with Liszt at his most exuberantly fantastical – or pairing Prokofiev’s gentle Grandmother’s Tales with a spectacular solo transcription of Mussorgsky’s dazzling orchestral phantasmagoria? But with Trpceski you can be sure of two things: playing of captivating imagination and colour, and an evening of music that adds up to infinitely more than just a wonderful noise.

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This performance will end at approximately 9.30pm, including a 20 minute interval.

Programme

Brahms Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op 9
Liszt Soirées de Vienne, S 427 Nos 5, 6 and 7
Prokofiev Tales of an Old Grandmother, Op 31
Mussorgsky/Rimsky-Korsakov Night on a Bare Mountain (arr for piano by Konstantin Chernov)
Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 7 in B-flat major, Op 83

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Simon Trpčeski piano
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