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3pm  ♦  Thursday 27 February 2020


Marina Kan

piano
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appearing courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music
2pm: Annual General Meeting of the charity
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society

Please download PDF documents for the meeting by clicking on the right for the colour print Agenda & Accounts, and separately for 2019's AGM Minutes - which you may decide you do not need to print out, thereby saving trees.

Everyone is invited to attend either the AGM, the concert, or both - although only current Members may vote at the AGM

3pm: AGM Piano Concert

Marina Kan, piano

Tickets: Free entry, with a retiring collection to cover costs

Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Road, KT22 8AY
disabled parking only on site, please use Swan Centre multi-storey at KT22 8AH
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Programme


Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata No 14 in C# Op 27/2 Moonlight (1801)
    I     Adagio sostenuto    slow and sustained
    II    Allegretto    fairly quick
    III  Presto agitato    very fast, restless


Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Piano Sonata No 1 in D minor Op 28 (1908)
    1 Allegro moderato     moderately quick


Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843-1907)
Lyrisker Stykker    Lyric Pieces
Book 1  Op 12  No 1 (1866-7)
    Arietta    Poco Andante e sostenuto    moderately slow and sustained

Book 3  Op 43  No 1 (1886)
    Sommerfugl    Butterfly    Allegro grazioso    fast and graceful

Book 6  Op 57  No 6 (1890-3)
    Heimweh    Homesickness    Andante    moderately slow

Book 4  Op 54  No 3 (1889-1891)
    Troldtog    March of the Trolls/Dwarves    Allegro moderato     moderately quick


Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
transcribed for piano in 1978 by Mikhail Pletnev (b1957)
from the Ballet Music for The Nutcracker Act 2 Scene 3  (1892)
    No 14   Pas de deux   Andante maestoso    moderately slow and majestic


Concert duration: 35-45 minutes

Marina Kan

Marina Kan Selvik is a critically acclaimed Russian-Norwegian concert pianist. Of her recent CD of music of Brahms and Robert and Clara Schumann reviewer Martin Anderson writes: Her playing reveals a technique and level of musicality, a remarkable talent for an international audience. Marina Kan Selvik plays with rhythmic suppleness, technical mastery and timbral sensitivity. Everything is in place and in order. Definitely one to follow.

Marina is prizewinner of several international piano competitions, and regularly gives solo and chamber music concerts throughout Europe. She was selected among young Scandinavian musicians as soloist with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (conductor Rory MacDonald) and the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra (conductor Lars-Thomas Holm).

She has been soloist with the Armenian State Orchestra, Lithuanian National Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Orchestra (conductor Markus Lehtinen), Liepaja Symphony Orchestra (conductor Gintaras Rinkevicius), Orquesta Sinfonica de la Region de Murcia (Spain) plus orchestras in russian cities including Moscow, Volgograd, Ulyanovsk, Vladivostok, Murmansk and more.

Marina performed Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto during a tour with the St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra in Russia, Finland and Norway, under conductor Alexander Titov with great success. She has been invited to perform at festivals like Kyoto International Festival, Japan, Grieg Ciurlionis Festival, Lithuania, Bergen International Festival, Norway, Oslo Chamber Music Festival, Musical Chairs Festival Montreal, Canada, Eurasian Music Games Festival, Astana, Kazakstan, and Rodyon Schjedrin-Festival Moscow.

Each year she is invited to give solo recitals at Edvard Grieg Museum Troldhaugen, Bergen, Norway, with great acclaim and praise, where she also gave a special concert for Her Majesty Queen Sonja of Norway.

Graduated from Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Marina is currently studying piano at London's Royal Academy of Music in the class of professor Ian Fountain, and conducting, receiving generous support from Ingar Doubloug Trust for her education. She has been selected as Concordia Foundation Artist for 2019-2020.

Concert at Home

If you cannot be with us at the lunchtime concert you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking through the video buttons below:

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata No 14 in C# Op 27/2 Moonlight (1801)
    I  Adagio sostenuto    slow and sustained  ♦  II  Allegretto    fairly quick  ♦  III  Presto agitato    very fast, restless

Jonah Ho was 7 when he recorded this performance in December 2018. One online comment was "this 7-year old has been playing piano for just 8 years now". It may not be the best recording, nor the finest piano, but you will soon hear what the critic meant.
How does he have the power in those little fingers to make the melody sing out like that?

On the right we hear Kiev-born Valentina Lisitsa (The Queen of Rachmaninoff) in a more nuanced performance:

Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Piano Sonata No 1 in D minor Op 28 (1908)  ♦  1 Allegro moderato     moderately quick

I think we had better hear the Queen of Rachmaninoff for this one.
If you have the time or want to come back later, here are the other two movements as well:

Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843-1907)
Lyrisker Stykker    Lyric Pieces
Book 1  Op 12  No 1 (1866-7)
Arietta
Poco Andante e sostenuto    moderately slow and sustained

This is a recording by Paul Barton, playing a Feurich piano in their works studio:

Book 6  Op 57  No 6 (1890-3)
Heimweh    Homesickness
Andante    moderately slow

Here Berlin-based Konrad Roman Salwa plays a Kawai RX 7 Grand piano
Book 3  Op 43  No 1 (1886)
Sommerfugl    Butterfly
Allegro grazioso    fast and graceful

Next Andrew Yiangou plays on the Fazioli in the East Parry Room of the Royal College of Music

Book 4  Op 54  No 3 (1889-1891)
Troldtog    March of the Trolls/Dwarves
Allegro moderato     moderately quick

And in this recording Mikhail Pletnev is the pianist, on a Steinway concert grand:

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
transcribed for piano in 1978 by Mikhail Pletnev (b1957)
from the Ballet Music for The Nutcracker Act 2 Scene 3  (1892)
    No 14   Pas de deux   Andante maestoso    moderately slow and majestic

Dmytro Sukhovienko is the pianist in our recording of this lovely music for pas de deux:

We hope you have enjoyed your  Concert at Home.

We expected Weekly Concerts to begin on APRIL 2nd, but events overtook us!

Thursday 23rd
April 2020

anytime
Music on Thursdays ▬ ONLINE
Concert for St George's Day and the Birth of Shakespeare

Artistes: various
Style: classical, folk, choral - ok, pretty mixed, to be honest

Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Road, KT22 8AY
disabled parking only on site, please use Swan Centre multi-storey at KT22 8AH
click on the flag for your online concert


Online CONCERTS are continuing each week
until it is safe to run live concerts in our churches

take a look at our online concert programme
here

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