Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Nelson Goerner

Nelson Goerner

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Nelson Goerner

Live from Wigmore Hall, brilliant Argentinian pianist performs Debussy and Schumann.

Live from Wigmore Hall, Argentinian pianist Nelson Goerner performs Debussy's Estampes and Schumann's Symphonic Studies.

Described as a ‘discreet artist whose career is immense’, Argentinian pianist Nelson Goerner performs two piano masterpieces. Debussy’s Estampes portray the composer’s fascination with other cultures: from 'Pagodes', evoking Indonesian gamelan music, which Debussy first heard in the Paris World Conference Exhibition of 1889; to 'La soirée dans Grenade', which mimics guitar strumming to conjure up images of Granada; to 'Jardins sous la pluie', which describes a garden in the Normandy town of Orbec during an extremely violent rainstorm. Composed some seventy years earlier, Schumann’s Symphonic Studies test the technical and emotional capabilities of any pianist. Originally published as a set of twelve studies, when republishing the set in 1890, Brahms restored the five variations that had been cut by Schumann – an amendment Nelson Goerner acknowledges in his performance.

Live from Wigmore Hall
Presented by Andrew McGregor

Debussy: Estampes 
Schumann: Etudes Symphoniques, Op 13 (including the 5 Posthumous Variations)

Nelson Goerner (piano)

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