- Doors: 7:00 PM
- Price: £10/8 online, £12/10 on the door
- Entry: All Ages
- Room: Main Room
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Forge Venue presents:
Romantic Piano Icons
Thursday 14 June @ The Forge, London
"Romantic Piano Icons" is the first in the series of recitals that explores works of 19th century’s composers who were notable pianists and/or whose piano compositions took a central place in their creative outputs. The series will focus on known and lesser known compositions of Chopin, Liszt, Schumann and Raff, Busoni, Alkan amongst others.
Programme:
Robert Schumann: Arabesque op.18, Novelletten op.21 No.8
Joachim Raff: Ballade from Drei Klavier-Soli op.74
Franz Liszt: Un Sospiro, Feux Follets, Liebesträume No.2
Frederic Chopin: Sonata in b minor op.58
Performance Details:
Doors open at 7pm
Performance begins at 7:30pm
Loyalty Scheme – this concert does apply to our loyalty scheme
It is NOT possible to dine during this performance
The Forge can accept only cash on the door
British-Vietnamese pianist Tra Nguyen’s performances have been praised as “coruscating” (The Independent), “sophisticated” (Rheinpfalz-Zeitung) and possesing "surpassing keyboard artistry and passion" (American Record Guide). Her recent orchestral recording debut of Joachim Raff’s Suite for Piano and Orchestra was chosen as Album of the Week by The Independent, in March 2010. Tra’s imaginative programming balances core repertoire and lesser-known music. She worked with Sterling Records to produce premiere recordings of music for piano and orchestra by Joachim Raff. The most recent chamber music CD with clarinetist Sabine Grofmeier has been released on ARS Produktion, featuring works of the German romantics and their contemporaries. 2012 will see the release her recording of Joachim Raff’s piano music on Naxos Records.
Tra gave her first performance at the Hanoi Opera House when she was ten and carried on to engage audiences in other prestigious venues worldwide. Tra Nguyen studied with Lev Naumov in Moscow Conservatory and with Christopher Elton at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Future engagements include concerto performances with leading Vietnamese orchestras and solo recitals in the UK with an evening recital at Wigmore Hall in December 2012.
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