Lewis Kingsley Peart: Nordic Dreams & Salon Fancies

Lewis Kingsley Peart Piano Recital:  Nordic Dreams and Salon Fancies 

Intimate piano portraits from the North and the heart of Europe

Edvard Grieg, 

Melody, Op. 38 No. 3

Elegy, Op. 47 No. 7

Little Bird, Op. 43 No. 4 

Notturno, Op. 54 No. 4

Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, Op. 65 No. 6

Jean Sibelius, 

Impromptu, Op. 5 No. 6

'The Spruce', Op. 75 No. 5

Rêverie, Op. 58 No. 1

Jouer de harpe, Op. 34 No. 8

Scherzino, Op. 58 No. 2

Stephen Montague, 

Scherzo in the Vienna Woods (Cornish Premiere)

Alfred Grünfeld, 

Soirée de Vienne, Op. 56

Lewis Kingsley Peart opens with the evocative music of Edvard Grieg and Jean Sibelius.  He is also a champion of the New York based American composer Stephen Montague whose new work Scherzo in the Viennese Woods receives its Cornish premiere and was commissioned by Lewis here after he gave a brilliant performance of Montague’s work After Ives in London at St John’s Smith Square. The Viennese theme continues with Alfred Grünfeld’s Soirée de Vienne Op. 56 a delightful pianistic showman piece featuring well-known waltzes by Johann Strauss and flashes of keyboard pyrotechnics.

A carefully crafted and introduced afternoon concert which will keep you entertained. 

Reviews

“Occasionally a performer comes along who makes difficult look easy.  Lewis Kingsley Peart studied at Chethams School of Music and London's Trinity Laban Conservatoire. Now based in London and Manchester, he has a busy life as a working musician and enthusiastic educator. His tastes embrace the traditional classical canon, through to jazz and the avant-garde. Played entirely from memory and with clear, succinct and witty introductions, his programme for us on  explored the rich repertoire of pianist-composers and arrangers.

STEPHEN MONTAGUE, COMPOSER

Lewis gave a brilliant performance of my After Ives... for piano at St. John's, Smith Square, London which was not only technically but theatrically a real tour de force! I was thrilled by his performance at every level.

FRANCES WILSON, THE CROSS-EYED PIANIST

The piano works in this segment combined Lisztian virtuosity in tumultuous passages with moments of repose, delicate far-away melodies and fragments of hymn tunes. The concert closed with After Ives (1993) which ends with an outrageously rambunctious and “perverse homage” to J P Sousa, whom Ives apparently detested, quoting his famous The Stars and Stripes Forever on the piano with Chopinesque melodic interjections and Lisztian extravagance, all masterfully and very wittily handled by Lewis Kingsley Peart. (Full review at crosseyedpianist.com)

“Lewis gave us a hugely entertaining and highly skilful piano recital served up with panache and is certainly someone to watch out for.” Toad Hall Concert Promoter

Part of the Metronome International Concert Artist Series and a continuing piano and chamber music recital series at the Poly on Saturday afternoons 

Lewis Kingsley Peart: Nordic Dreams & Salon Fancies

Saturday 28th March, 2.30pm

Tickets: £15/£10/£5

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