Thursday 20 May, St Michael’s and All Angels Church, Lambourn
7.30pm (finishes approx 9.30pm)
£16.50 Unreserved
Licensed cash bar at interval
| Schubert | Arpeggione Sonata |
| Chopin | Sonata |
| Bridge | Four pieces for cello and piano |
| Rachmaninov | Cello Sonata in G minor Op 19 |
Two exceptionally gifted and award winning Welsh musicians in recital – the dynamic young cellist Thomas Carroll and the pianist Llyr Williams who brings a profound musical intelligence to his work.
Schubert wrote his Sonata for the arpeggione, a bowed guitar, but the instrument was obscure by the time the work was published in 1871 and it is now played most frequently on the cello or viola. Chopin’s Cello Sonata, his last work to be published, was performed at the composer’s final public concert in 1848. Bridge composed his Four Pieces separately between 1901 and 1910. The recital concludes with one of the most passionate and expansive cello sonatas of the 20th century, by Rachmaninov, who gave the piano such an important and virtuosic role that it is often referred to as the Sonata in G Minor for Cello and Piano.
