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

The Argentinian pianist performs works by Handel, Schumann and Balakirev.

Argentinian Nelson Goerner performs Handel's Chaconne in G, Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze and Balakirev's Islamey, a work once considered the most difficult for the piano.

The celebrated Argentinian pianist brings together Handel's Chaconne with Schumann’s 18 miniature pieces, Davidsbündlertänze, which the composer began working on just a week after his secret engagement to Clara. Goerner closes with Balakirev’s Islamey, described by music critic Harold C Schonberg as ‘at one time…considered the most difficult of all piano pieces and is still one of the knucklebusters’.

Live from Wigmore Hall, London
Presented by Hannah French

Handel: Chaconne in G, HWV 435
Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze Op 6
Balakirev: Islamey

Nelson Goerner (piano)

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