Lisa Smirnova

Programme:
Scarlatti Five Keyboard Sonatas
Mozart Variations on a Minuet by Duport, K573
Mozart Fantasia in D minor, K397
Handel Suite in G minor, HWV 432

‘As a Russian pianist I often encounter the clichéd expectation that I will be focusing on the Romantic repertoire whereas it is actually the great Baroque and Classical repertoire which has always held a special place in my musical interests.

Scarlatti and Handel were two of the most amazing keyboard virtuosos of their time and yet they are so very different from each other. Their music still appears incredibly modern to me, thus making a discussion about historical instruments and appropriate sound worlds seem almost irrelevant.