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Tuesday 13th May 2025 - 7:30pm
Emma Abbate and Julian Perkins
– Four Hands One Piano
Chit Chat
Praised for telling ‘‘a totally convincing story with every piece’’ by The Arts Desk, Emma Abbate and Julian Perkins perform a selection of piano duets ranging from Mozart to Ravel.
Emma Abbate and Julian Perkins have given duet recitals at venues including the Royal Opera House, St George’s Bristol, St John’s Smith Square, Hatchlands Park, the Russell Collection and for the Mozart Society of America. Praised for their ‘‘impressive sensitivity’’ by Early Music Reviews and for telling ‘‘a totally convincing story with every piece’’ by The Arts Desk, their recordings have received five-star reviews in BBC Music Magazine and Het Nieuwsblad. Their varied discography includes Mozart’s complete sonatas for keyboard duet on period instruments, Weber’s complete piano duets on an original Viennese fortepiano, as well as Tournament for Twenty Fingers featuring works by British composers from the twentieth century.
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Sonata for piano four hands in D Major No 1
Allegro – Andante – Allegro molto
Robert Schumann - Kinderball, 6 leichte Tanzstücke,Op.130
Polonaise – Walzer – Menuett – Ecossaise
– Française – Ringelreihe
Maurice Ravel - Ma mère l'Oye
- Pavane de la Belle au Bois dorman
- Petit Poucet
- Laideronnette, Impératrice des Pagodes
– Les entretiens de la Belle et de la Bête
– Le jardin féerique
~ INTERVAL ~
Peter Warlock - Capriol Suite
Basse-Danse – Pavane –Tordion – Bransles
Pieds-en-l'air –Mattachins (Sword Dance)
Antonín Dvořák - Slavonic Dances op. 72 no. 8 and op. 46 no. 8
Iain Farrington - Chit Chat
Pep talk – Clean blues – Breezy banter