Building Bridges - Andràs Schiff presents young pianists.
Concert with Mishka Rushdie-Momen.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Fantasia No. 4 in C minor K. 475
Leoš Janaček (1854 - 1928)
Sonata 1.X.1905.
Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Waldszenen op. 82
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Sonata no. 28 Op. 101
In November 2014, Mishka Rushdie Momen won first prize at the Dudley International Piano Competition, playing the 3rd Piano Concerto by Bartók. Piano Concerto by Bartók with the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Michael Seal.
Mishka Rushdie Momen was born in London in 1992 and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, with Alfred Brendel and Richard Goode among others.
The programme Mishka Rushdie Momen performs at Building Bridges moves from darkness and tragedy to the triumph of the human soul. All the works have unusual and experimental forms that are as expansive as they are fragile, revealing as they are inward-looking.
Mozart's Fantasia is one of his most unusual works, in which he composed with the greatest freedom and almost improvisationally. He juxtaposes pathetic and virtuosic passages with gentle lyrical themes, but underpins this with a unifying and precise structure. Like Mozart, Janacek is a master of dramatic tension. The Sonata 1.X.1905 is dedicated to the death of the young worker Frantisek Pavlik, who was stabbed to death on 1 October 1905 during a demonstration for the establishment of a second Czech university. Janacek was also present at this demonstration.
Schumann's Forest Scenes begins in the middle of a thought, caught between reality and the world of dreams; it is similar with the first movement of Beethoven's Sonata op. 101: it asks question after question, but no answer is found. Finally, the final movement is full of joy, celebrating the triumph of certainty over doubt.
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