Steven Osborne

T1232390181
Piano.

Performer

Steven Osborne

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Archive :: production:T1232390181, concert:S0149014251, venue:V423

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Production details

One of Britain s most sought-after young pianists, Steven Osborne returns to the International Piano Series with an eclectic programme of piano classics. Opening with Beethoven s much-loved Moonlight Sonata, by turns broodingly introspective and explosively dramatic, Osborne moves on to the fantastical imagination of Ravel in Gaspard de la Nuit, three pieces that push the pianist s technique to the limits in the evocation of magical and nightmarish myths. The spiky slivers of Prokofiev s Visions fugitives then serve as curtain-raiser to Rachmaninov s magnificent Sonata No.2, a work in the grand romantic manner of pre-Revolutionary Russia. Queen Elizabeth Hall