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Clara Rodriguez, Histoires D'Amour

Piano and Chamber Music

Add to my Calendar 03-12-2018 19:45 03-12-2018 21:45 36 Clara Rodriguez, Histoires D'Amour Love, longing and friendship in an evening of classical music performed by pianist Clara Rodriguez and literary readings. Rodriguez brings her eloquent style to a moving programme that includes works by Debussy, Ravel, Hahn and Piazzolla. The music is interspersed by readings of Proust's letters to Hahn and poems by Verlaine and Bertrand. Clair de Lune, Clair de Lune, Verlaine's poem, prompted Debussy’s Suite bergamasque, while Ravel’s Ondine was sparked by Aloysius Bertrand's post-romantic poem of the same name. Corentin Chassard joins Clara Rodriguez for Debussy’s Sonata in D minor for cello and piano, dedicated to the lives lost during World War One. Marcel Proust said, ‘Everything I have ever done has always been thanks to Reynaldo’. In this concert, Rodriguez introduces music by the Venezuelan-born Reynaldo Hahn, with whom the French writer had an intense and lasting friendship. Freya Goldmark and Clara Rodriguez will perform his violin Sonata. Caribbean bolero Historia de un amor by Carlos Almarán closes the concert. Purcell Room, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Purcell Room
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Rd
South Bank
London
SE1 8XX
England

Programme

Claude Debussy – Suite Bergamasque
Reynaldo Hahn – Premières Valses & Violin and Piano Sonata
Astor Piazzolla – Adios Nonino
Claude Debussy – Cello Sonata in D minor, L.135
Maurice Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin: Toccata
Maurice Ravel – Gaspard de la Nuit: Ondine

Performers

Clara Rodriguez – piano
Freya Goldmark – violin
Corentin Chassard – cello
Leonardo Muller – electric bass

Programme Note

Love, longing and friendship in an evening of classical music performed by pianist Clara Rodriguez and literary readings.

Rodriguez brings her eloquent style to a moving programme that includes works by Debussy, Ravel, Hahn and Piazzolla. The music is interspersed by readings of Proust's letters to Hahn and poems by Verlaine and Bertrand.

Clair de Lune, Clair de Lune, Verlaine's poem, prompted Debussy’s Suite bergamasque, while Ravel’s Ondine was sparked by Aloysius Bertrand's post-romantic poem of the same name.

Corentin Chassard joins Clara Rodriguez for Debussy’s Sonata in D minor for cello and piano, dedicated to the lives lost during World War One.

Marcel Proust said, ‘Everything I have ever done has always been thanks to Reynaldo’. In this concert, Rodriguez introduces music by the Venezuelan-born Reynaldo Hahn, with whom the French writer had an intense and lasting friendship. Freya Goldmark and Clara Rodriguez will perform his violin Sonata.

Caribbean bolero Historia de un amor by Carlos Almarán closes the concert.

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