Elizabeth Sombart performs Chopin
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This event took place on Wednesday 12 October 2016.
- Wednesday 12 October 2016
- Cadogan Hall
Elizabeth Sombart performs Chopin
Wed 12 Oct 2016
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Repertoire
- Wagner Tannhäuser Overture
- Chopin Piano Concerto No.2
- Beethoven Symphony No.4
Features
- Pierre Vallet Conductor
- Elizabeth Sombart Piano
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Following last year's performance of Chopin's Piano Concerto No.1 and our recent recording of The Art of Chopin (Fondation Résonnance), "Chopin exponent" (The Guardian) Elizabeth Sombart and conductor Pierre Vallet return to Cadogan Hall to perform the second of Chopin's piano concertos. Composed at the mere age of twenty, Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.2 harks back to the likes of Hummel and Mozart whilst including Chopin’s patriotic hallmark, as the finale inhabits the world of Polish folk music.
Also featured in the concert is the Overture to Tannhäuser, which in typical Wagnerian style encapsulates the drama of Wagner's greatly admired opera, with its quasi-Bach chorale opening and dazzling, tormenting middle. The concert finishes with Beethoven’s sunny and joyous Fourth Symphony.
Read more about The Art of Chopin...
Chopin: The Piano Concertos CD review – superb flexibility and freedom
"Sombart’s playing is superb: technically precise but possessing a flexibility and freedom that lets the music breathe. Vallet conducts with an innate understanding of the soloist’s intentions." (The Guardian)