Piano Recital VI – Eugenia Sánchez Durán

The piano sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven are considered the “New Testament” of piano literature. The sonata Les Adieux is one of his most famous works ever, and its interpretation is always a great challenge for the pianist. The collection of virtuoso pieces by Frédéric Chopin labelled Scherzo may surprise you in that it does not meet our idea of scherzo as light music with a symmetrical structure. Chopin here follows Beethoven, but moves the pattern towards a kind of stormy piano fantasia. One of the main sources of inspiration for Alexander Scriabin's early work was the work of Chopin. Like him, Scriabin also composed a number of miniatures in addition to the larger-scale piano sonatas. The programme will conclude with a selection from the piano suite Goyescas by the Spanish composer Enrique Granados. The composer was inspired by the paintings of Francisco Goya when composing it. The piano part is full of small figures, demanding absolute mastery of delicate dexterity, and at the same time great power in the dramatic moments.

For the first time, the young twenty-year-old Spanish pianist Eugenia Sánchez Durán, who has made her debut at both Carnegie Hall and the Mozarteum Salzburg, will make her debut in Bratislava.