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Piano Recital with Marc Corbett-Weaver

Part of the London Firebird Orchestra 2025-2026

Add to my Calendar 14-10-2025 19:30 14-10-2025 21:30 36 Piano Recital with Marc Corbett-Weaver Pianist and Artistic Director Marc Corbett-Weaver’s annual recital at St George’s Hanover Square features two great master-works of the repertoire. Busoni’s legendary piano transcription of J S Bach’s monumental Chaconne from the D minor Partita for solo violin is filled with passion, drama, profundity and despair as it journeys through the theme’s many different variations. Beethoven’s thrilling and exquisite Waldstein Sonata was composed during his extraordinary Heroic Decade (which also gave rise to the Appassionata Sonata, Violin Concerto, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th symphonies, his only opera, Fidelio, and the final three piano concertos). The sonata’s three movements are often likened to different times of day – a bustling morning, dream-filled night and serenely beautiful afternoon. Liszt’s monumental B minor Sonata is, of course, a famous masterpiece, thought to be the pinnacle of Sonata form. This grandiose and virtuosic work ranks amongst the most technically demanding pieces for the instrument and is filled with drama, excitement and beautiful dolce melodies. “Marc Corbett-Weaver showed himself to be an interpretive artist fully immersed in the subtleties and considerable technical demands of each composer’s writing. Both sets of pieces were given with quite notable interpretative mastery – bringing this subtly-planned and finely-executed recital to a satisfying conclusion.”Musical Opinion Magazine St George's Hanover Square, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St George's Hanover Square
Mill Street
Mayfair
London
W1S 1FX
England

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach – Chaconne in D minor, BWV 1004 (tr. Busoni)
Franz Liszt – Piano Sonata in B minor, S.178
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata no.21 in C major 'Waldstein', Op.53

Performers

Marc Corbett-Weaver – piano

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Programme Note

Pianist and Artistic Director Marc Corbett-Weaver’s annual recital at St George’s Hanover Square features two great master-works of the repertoire.

Busoni’s legendary piano transcription of J S Bach’s monumental Chaconne from the D minor Partita for solo violin is filled with passion, drama, profundity and despair as it journeys through the theme’s many different variations.

Beethoven’s thrilling and exquisite Waldstein Sonata was composed during his extraordinary Heroic Decade (which also gave rise to the Appassionata Sonata, Violin Concerto, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th symphonies, his only opera, Fidelio, and the final three piano concertos). The sonata’s three movements are often likened to different times of day – a bustling morning, dream-filled night and serenely beautiful afternoon.

Liszt’s monumental B minor Sonata is, of course, a famous masterpiece, thought to be the pinnacle of Sonata form. This grandiose and virtuosic work ranks amongst the most technically demanding pieces for the instrument and is filled with drama, excitement and beautiful dolce melodies.

“Marc Corbett-Weaver showed himself to be an interpretive artist fully immersed in the subtleties and considerable technical demands of each composer’s writing. Both sets of pieces were given with quite notable interpretative mastery – bringing this subtly-planned and finely-executed recital to a satisfying conclusion.”
Musical Opinion Magazine

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