Jonathan Biss

n Monday 27 March, the second concert in Jonathan Biss’s Late Style series explores the late works of composers of the romantic era together with seven of Kurtág’s Játékok selected in recognition of Kurtág’s deep nostalgia for the music of the past.

To illustrate his point, Jonathan has placed Kurtág’s music between Schumann’s Gësange der Frühe - the last work that he completed before his suicide attempt and institutionalisation - and Chopin’s last large-scale work, the Polonaise-Fantasie. The all-Brahms second half traces an early-to-late trajectory, concluding with Op. 118, Brahms’s most unflinching meditation on death.

A programme of

Schumann
Kurtág
Chopin
Brahms
Brahms
Brahms
Gesänge der Frühe, Op. 133
Játékok, Selections from Volume 7
Polonaise-Fantaisie in A-flat, Op. 61
Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5, Second Movement
Klavierstücke, Op. 119
Klavierstücke, Op. 118