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Steven Osborne plays Mozart and Shostakovich at Kings Place

Pianist Steven Osborne joins Principal Players of Aurora for Mozart's popular Piano Concerto No 23 and Shostakovich's powerful Piano Quintet. Plus a new work from Sylvia Lim.

Internationally renowned Scottish pianist Steven Osborne joins Principal Players of Aurora for one of the final concerts in Aurora's five-year project 'Mozart's Piano': the first complete performance cycle of Mozart鈥檚 piano concertos ever staged in the UK. Mozart's piano Concerto No. 23 was written at the same time as his opera The Marriage of Figaro and its seemingly endless succession of memorable tunes have ensured that it's still one of his most popular concertos. Social distancing rules give us a rare chance to hear the concerto in a chamber version.

Even though it meant he was 100,000 roubles better off, perhaps Shostakovich felt ambivalent when his Piano Quintet won the 1940 Stalin Prize. But this wartime piece is one of the great works of Soviet 20th-Century chamber music and packs a huge emotional punch.

Between these two classics, a world premiere from Sylvia Lim whose interest in the materiality of sound, rawness and instability has led her to write for the unusual combination of trombone and string quartet.

Recorded last month at Kings Place and introduced by Tom Service.

Mozart (arr. Lachner for string quintet): Piano Concerto No.23 in A major, K488
Sylvia Lim: Points of Intersection (world premiere)
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57

Steven Osborne (piano)
Principal Players of Aurora

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Tue 12 Jan 2021 19:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No.23 in A major, K.488

    Composer: Ignaz Lachner. Performer: Steven Osborne. Ensemble: Principal Players of Aurora.

  • Sylvia Lim

    Points of Intersection

    Ensemble: Principal Players of Aurora.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Quintet in G minor, Op.57

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Ensemble: Principal Players of Aurora.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano

    Ensemble: Ensemble 360.
    • Poulenc: Music for Piano and Wind.
    • Nimbus.
    • 004.

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    String Quartet No.1 in D minor, Op.7

    Ensemble: Leipziger Streichquartett.
    • MDG.

Broadcast

  • Tue 12 Jan 2021 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3