Summer Music in City Churches - A Pianist Abroad: Viv McLean
Summer Music in City Churches - A Pianist Abroad: Viv McLean at St Giles Cripplegate Church, London
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About the show
Join acclaimed pianist Viv McLean for this special lunchtime programme of lyrical works for piano at St Giles Cripplegate.
The concert features the music of three musical titans, evoking homelands which are inextricably linked with their output. Beethoven wrote his great Les Adieux Sonata for his beloved Vienna when Napoleon's attack forced the composer's patron, Archduke Rudolph, to leave. Grieg's Lyric Pieces are infused with the flavours and rhythms of Norway's traditional music. Among the numbers performed today will be the irrepressible Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, recalling joy at the composer's own home. As for Chopin, nothing is more characteristic of his genius than the folk dances of Poland - the Mazurka and the Polonaise.
BEETHOVEN "Les Adieux" Sonata
GRIEG Lyric Pieces
CHOPIN Mazurkas & Polonaises
Viv McLean, piano
This is a lunchtime concert lasting one hour with no interval.
Featuring - Viv McLean
One of Britain's foremost classical pianists who has performed throughout the world as a concerto soloist, chamber musician and recitalist.
Viv has performed concertos with such leading orchestras as the London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Philharmonia, English Chamber, Halle and BBC Concert Orchestra.
He won the First Prize at the Maria Canals International Piano Competition.