John McKinlay

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A Liszt Recital

Ian Holtham's acclaimed recital showcases works by the great, enigmatic, and quintessentially romantic pianist and composer Franz Liszt. The programme centres on Holtham's masterful reading of the monumental Sonata in B minor.

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Pictures

In Pictures, Ian Holtham leads the listener through Romantic piano masterpieces: Mussorgsky’s gallery cycle Pictures at an Exhibition, Schumann’s masked-ball Carnaval, and Tchaikovsky’s rustic Doumka.

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Acts of Homage

Acclaimed pianist Ian Holtham marks the centenary of Brahms’s death and the bicentenary of Schubert’s birth. The programme sets Schubert’s late impromptus beside Brahms’s Handel Variations and late piano pieces, with Godowsky’s song transcriptions as a further homage.

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Imo Pectore

With Ian Holtham as guide, Imo Pectore – ‘music from the inner-most recesses of the heart’ – gathers four works of private intensity by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Rachmaninov.

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Études

Ian Holtham, piano. Chopin’s twenty-four Études, Op. 10 and Op. 25: perfect examples of their genre, wonderfully innovative in texture and uncompromisingly challenging in technical difficulty.

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