19:30 Concert, Wigmore Hall

18:00 Pre concert talk, Wigmore Hall

Programme:

Fortepiano J.A.Stein

• CPE Bach - Sonata W.65/17 g minor (Allegro; Adagio, Allegro assai)

Fortepiano A.Walter ca.1792

• Mozart - Fantasia c minor K.475
• Beethoven - Sonata quasi una Fantasia, op. 27 Nr.2 c sharp minor (Moonlight) (Adagio sostenuto, Allegretto, Presto agitato)

Fortepiano C.Graf ca. 1819

• Schubert - Impromtus opus posth.142 Nr.3 B flat major

Fortepiano J.Pleyel 1830

• Chopin - Nocturne op.48 c minor
• Chopin - Polonaise op.26, N1 c sharp minor

Fortepiano Boisselot 1846

• Liszt - Funerailles (1849)

Viviana Sofronitsky, a great exponent of the forte piano, presents a programme of CPE Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin and Liszt, performed on 5 new forte pianos:
Stein ca 1788 ; Walter 1782 ; Graf 1819 ; Pleyel 1830 ; Liszt’s Boisselot 1846

Paul McNulty, maker of all 5 pianos used for this concert, gives a talk and demonstration on fortepiano construction and playing, as it developed in the 18th and 19th centuries. Free with ticket for evening concert (separate ticket required).

For more information on any of these pianos, please visit the website of Paul McNulty HERE

The concert will showcase the deveoplment of the forte piano from Mozart through to the Pleyel and the favourite pianos of Chopin and Liszt.

"I think that instruments from every period have effects and colors that cannot be reproduced on today's pianos - that compositions were always conceived with the instruments of their time in mind and only on those can they achieve their full effect..." Anton Rubinstein, 1892

Not only does this concert mark Viviana's Wigmore Hall debut, but also the inaugural concert of the Liszt’s Boisselot 1846, commissioned by Stichting Weimar to celebrate Liszt's bicentennial in 2011.