Scriabin Plus
John Toal introduces the first of six recitals from Belfast exploring tne piano music or bcnaoin and his contemporaries. 1: Poems of Ecstasy Adilia Alieva (piano)
Scriabin Two Pieces, Op 57; Three
Pieces, Op 45; Etrangete, Op 63 No 2; En Revant, Op 71 No 2; Sonata No 5, Op 53
Balakirev Dumka (1900); Spanish Serenade; The Lark; Islamey
8.20 Russians Abroad
Rachmaninov in New York. In the first of six interval features tracing the Russian diaspora over the last 150 years, David Cannata charts Rachmaninov's exile in the United States. Leaving Russia for the last time at the outbreak of the Revolution in 1917, Rachmaninov settled in New York. But far from turning his back on the past, he set about re-creating the atmosphere of his former home.
8.40 Ravel Oiseaux Tristes; Une
Barque sur I 'Ocean (Miroirs)
Rachmaninov Daisies, Op 38 No 3; Etudes-Tableaux. Op 33