Romantic Piano: Baroque Reimagined
Llŷr Williams, piano Playhouse
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BACH-BUSONI
Chaconne in D minor (15’)
BACH-BUSONI Chorale preludes (30’)
DUKAS Variations, interlude et finale sur un thème de Rameau (17’)
LISZT Fantasy and Fugue on the Theme B-A-C-H (12’)
BRAHMS Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel (26’)
Welsh star pianist, Llŷr Williams, returns to Sheffield with a programme exploring the enduring influence of Baroque music from the 1700s on later generations of composers. Busoni reimagines Bach’s great organ works for the modern piano, Liszt transforms a Bach theme into dazzling virtuosity, and Dukas pays tribute to Rameau in one of the most colourful masterpieces of French piano music. Brahms’s monumental Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel is a work that unites intellectual brilliance with breathtaking power.
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Reviews
5 Stars
“He plays with a clarity and rigour that makes everything seem newly minted, yet it’s the ability to produce a deeply expressive singing tone in an infinite range of colours that is the most telling facet of his pianism.”