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Wigmore Hall Mondays: Steven Osborne

Live from the Wigmore Hall in London, Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a piano recital by Steven Osborne. Rachmaninov: Etudes-tableaux (excerpts). Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition.

Award-winning Scottish pianist Steven Osborne takes the visual arts as his theme for a programme of Russian music.
He begins with a selection from Rachmaninov's "脡tudes-tableaux" , picture pieces, although these are not not based on any specific works of art. And then we hear Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition", based on paintings and drawings by the Russian architect and artist Viktor Hartmann, including the famous "Great Gate of Kiev".

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

58 minutes

Last on

Sun 8 Feb 2015 13:00

Music Played

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Etudes-tableau, Op 33 (No 1, 3, 7, 8)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
  • Rachmaninov

    4 Etudes Tableaux Op.33 Nos 1, 3, 7, 8

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures from an Exhibition

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures at an Exhibition

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures at an Exhibition

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in D major, Op 23 No 4

    Performer: Steven Osborne.

Broadcasts

  • Mon 2 Feb 2015 13:00
  • Sun 8 Feb 2015 13:00