(DIS)QUIET: Larry Axelrod Piano Recital featuring a work by Jane O'Leary

Larry Axelrod, piano.

How can composers express quiet and disquiet? How can these opposites find their way into the same composition in unexpected ways? How can composers use the concepts of silence, architecture and dislocation to inspire a composition?

This recital of contemporary works spanning three continents and five decades explores these questions, using vastly different musical languages and pianistic techniques. Two of the works are premieres.

Programme

Tera de Marez-Oyens - Sentenced to Dream (1990) 

Eduardo Luis Patriarca - Mantra 3 (2007) 

Toru Takemitsu - La Pause Ininterrompue (1962) 

1. Slowly, sadly and as if to converse with

2. Quietly and with a cruel reverberation

3. A song of love

Oliver Knussen - Sonya’s Lullaby op. 16 (1979) 

Jane O’Leary - breathing spaces (2010) 

I. Unbroken waves

II. Spiral ramps

III. Into the void

IV. Disappearing walls

V. From within

Eduardo Luis Patriarca - Meditaçao (2007) 

Diogo Alvim - Peça com Vista (2018) 

Lawrence Axelrod - (un)settled (2022)

Tickets

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