Moonlight Sonata: Music for Piano

Friday 12 June 2020

7.00pm, St Paul's Church Clifton

Tickets: £15, £5 students

Douglas Stevens - piano

Celebrating 250 years since his birth, hear Beethoven’s most famous and much loved solo piano piece at the heart of this expressive and moving programme, paired with Chopin’s Nocturne, thought to be inspired by the Moonlight Sonata. 

Brimming with virtuosic energy the programme also includes Nielsen’s diverse and eclectic Suite, a work of contrapuntal elegance and ingenuity, and Berkeley’s Five Short Pieces, full of wit, vitality and charm.

Programme

Beethoven  - Piano Sonata no. 14, Op. 27 No. 2 'Moonlight'

Chopin - Nocturne no. 9 in B major, Op. 32 No. 1

Chopin - Fantaisie-Impromptu Op. 66 

Carl Nielsen - Suite Op.45 

Lennox Berkeley Five Short Pieces Op.4