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'Spread over four programmes the distinguished pianist tackles the "full Mozart".'

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Mozart
Sonata No 1 in C K279
Sonata No 2 in F K280
Sonata No 9 in D K311
Sonata No 17 in B flat K570
Sonata No 8 in A minor K310

'Blackshaw's playing simply defines class and classical.'
THE BALTIMORE SUN

Our Mozart Sonata Cycle opens with two early piano sonatas, works of relative simplicity but great charm that the young virtuoso Mozart performed as he toured around Europe. From the melancholic strains of his second sonata, we move on to some of his more complex later sonatas: the extraordinary Sonata No 9 with its ghostly Rondo written by Mozart in response to his mother’s tragic death from typhus; and the penultimate sonata, No 17, which contains one of the most serene slow movements in all music.

6.15pm Pre-concert Talk
Christian Blackshaw introduces the Mozart Piano Sonata Cycle.
Free to ticket holders.

'Christian Blackshaw is a musician utterly sensitive to the discoursive element of the music, who can enchant with incandescance, discretion, good taste, perfection of style.' LA STAMPA (ITALY)