5 August 2012: Charles Owen and Katya Apekisheva
The performers
Charles Owen and Katya Apekisheva piano four hands
Background
This is Charles’ third concert at Cratfield (he was here last in 2007), but Katya’s first visit. It is nine years since Cratfield last heard four hands on one piano (Simon Crawford-Phillips and Philip Moore in 2003).
Charles’s career is now well-established, with regular solo and chamber music concerts at all major venues in London and internationally; and a significant discography.
Katya was born in Moscow into a family of musicians; after studying there and at the Rubin Music Academy in Jerusalem, she moved to London to study at the Royal College of Music. In 1996, in addition to successes in the Leeds and Scottish competitions, Katya won the award for London Philharmonic Orchestra Soloist of the Year, as well as the prestigious Terence Judd Award.
For more details, click here to go to Charles’s own website; and here to Katya’s.
Playing at Cratfield
The concert is at 3pm on Sunday 5 August 2012.
Concert programme
Mozart, Sonata in C K521 (1787)
Mozart, Fantasia in F minor for a mechanical organ K608 (1791)
Schubert, Fantasie in F minor D940 (1828)
INTERVAL
Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring (original version) (1913)
About the programme
Mozart’s Sonata in C K521 is the latest of only four works which Mozart wrote for piano four hands (his better known Sonata in D K448 is for two pianos); the Fantasia in F minor K608 was originally for Count Joseph Deym, who had a series of complex clock-cum-pipe organs, but was arranged for piano four hands in the nineteenth century, when it acquired its ‘Fantasia’ title. The piece is, as organist Christopher Herrick puts it: ‘even more fantastic than the machine for which it was created’, and may have provided the inspiration for Schubert’s Fantasie in F minor D940, whose key and improvisatory structure are strongly reminiscent of K608. The first performance of the ballet The Rite of Spring in Paris in May 1913 is one of music’s most dramatic moments, with a near-riot in the audience caused by the primitive setting and narrative, Stravinsky’s violent and elemental music and Nijinsky’s energetic choreography.
CDs
Charles has recorded two discs of sonatas with Natalie Clein cello, and solo CDs of Fauré (the complete Nocturnes), Janacek and Poulenc. Katya has collaborated on several recordings with Jack Liebeck violin, as well as a solo CD of Grieg; a second solo CD is due out later in 2011.
Ticket availability (click here for the Tickets page)
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