Yulianna Avdeeva
“A colourful, shifting performance that never weighs down or drags. A lesson in grand style.” DIAPASON
Trained in Moscow and Zurich, Yulianna Avdeeva became the first woman (since Martha Argerich in 1965) to win the Warsaw Chopin Competition in 2010. Her recital opens with Bach and Beethoven, works of an eminently improvisatory and tormented character, extended by the tempestuous nature of the “Appassionata” Sonata. The second half, devoted to Ravel’s genius, leads from the tender and melancholic Pavane for a Dead Princess to the tectonic upheavals of La Valse, via the delightfully cheeky Valses nobles et sentimentales.
Programme
BACH, Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue BWV 903
BEETHOVEN, Piano Fantasy Op. 77
BEETHOVEN, Piano Sonata No. 23 “Appassionata”
RAVEL, Pavane for a Dead Princess
RAVEL, Valses nobles et sentimentales
RAVEL, La Valse
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