Debussy’s Romantic Piano by Candlelight – ‘Clair de Lune’
Chopin’s scandalous elopement with the French author George Sand; Brahms’ secret affair with his best friend’s wife; Scottish widows and the masked balls of Venice meet for a romantic tour of the piano…
Einaudi’s Piano by Candlelight – ‘Spirited Away’
Studio Ghibli’s and Joe Hisaishi’s Japanese animé Spirited Away, Ludovico Einaudi’s TOP10 most streamed piano pieces and Philip Glass’ hypnotic soundtrack to the Academy award-winning film The Hours meet alongside…
Gershwin’s Jazz Piano by Candlelight – ‘Rhapsody in Blue’
The ‘roaring 20s’ of Tin Pan Alley New York; the rise of the Nazis and their violent repression of cabaret and jazz in 1930s Berlin; and Scott Joplin’s musical mission to end segregation across the American South – these world-changing musical events meet…
A Burns Night Hootenanny – ‘Tam O’ Shanter’
A dram of whisky, kilts, sporrans and a dramatic reciting of Rabbie Burns’ great Tam O'Shanter meet Scottish folk music, masterpieces inspired by the beauty of Scotland and a sing-along performance of his world-famous Auld Lang Syne…
Cirque du piano – 1 piano, 3 pianists, 6 hands and 30 fingers
Playfully straddling the categories of circus and a ‘serious’ classical music concert, our innovative piano troupe perform finger gymnastics and arabesques of the hand as they take us on a world tour of the rarely heard music written for three pianists playing one piano together…
Maestro
It is May 9th, 1965. Concert pianist maestro Vladamir Horowitz makes his long-awaited return to Carnegie Hall following his mental breakdown triggered by Soviet conversion therapy to cure his homosexuality and his political marriage to the daughter of the great Italian conductor Toscanini…
Charlie Chaplin’s Cinema Paradiso 1924 – film score LIVE!
Step back in time into the silent film era of retro Hollywood (1890 – 1930) when Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton and Greta Garbo walked amongst the A-list and cinemas employed pianists to improvise music as their films played…