[Tentatively at First United Church. If we can move back to our Music Room for this great event, we’ll let everybody know!]    $35/$20

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[MOVED FROM MAY 17)

$35 (students $20)
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Program:

BRAHMS, Symphony No. 1 in c (arr. Brahms!)
Beethoven D major piano duo  Op. 6 
Ravel - Mother Goose Suite
Alice Ho, Heart to Heart

About this music:

As many will not be aware. Brahms himself set his four symphonies for four-hands piano before orchestrating them. So in a sense, Angela and Sylvestre play the “first” versions of these wonderful works.

Of course, there is no substitute for the works in their final fully orchestrated form -- but still, these are fascinating and afford some insights that the orchestral versions don’t quite bring out!

At any rate, here are two of Canada’s fine pianists -- Angela, the veteran who has played for us in so many configurations, but new to us in four-hands format; and Stéphan, who has played for us as a guest artist with string quartet

Angela has recently moved to London to join the Don Wright Faculty of Music  at Western University
Stephan has been at Western for many years
So they can now practice together as a four-hands team!

Both the Beethoven and the Ravel works are established “classics” - Beethoven’s sonata because it was composed in the classical era and deliberately in the style of that time; the Ravel simply because it has proven irresistible to the public.