Stanislav Korchagin brings French colour and Russian piano writing together in Polar Night Rhapsody.
Debussy's Images, livre II and Ravel's La Valse lead into Rachmaninoff preludes, Études-tableaux and the Second Piano Sonata. Tchaikovsky's December and Dance of Pages complete the contrast of atmosphere and virtuosity.
Cast (names transliterated)
Stanislav Korchagin, piano.
Casting may change on the day.
Full programme
- Claude Debussy – Images, Book II (Set 2), L. 111: Cloches à travers les feuilles; Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut; Poissons d'or
- Claude Debussy – Nocturne, L. 82
- Claude Debussy – Ballade, L. 70
- Maurice Ravel – La Valse (piano solo)
- Sergei Rachmaninoff – Prelude in C major, Op. 32 No. 1
- Sergei Rachmaninoff – Prelude in G major, Op. 32 No. 5
- Sergei Rachmaninoff – Étude-Tableau in C minor, Op. 39 No. 1
- Sergei Rachmaninoff – Étude-Tableau, Op. 33 No. 3
- Sergei Rachmaninoff – Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 36 (first edition)
- Pyotr Tchaikovsky – The Seasons: December – Christmas
- Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Dance of the Pages from The Sleeping Beauty (arr. Mikhail Pletnev)