Our new season of Live at Lunch concerts continues our long-established partnership with Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music. Pianist Yuxuan Zhao brings with him a dramatic programme of masterworks.

Yuxuan begins with Haydn’s last piano sonata, composed in London and considered his greatest because of the almost symphonic sounds and mastery of the sonata form. The central part of the recital features Frederic Chopin, from his poetic and turbulent Ballade No. 2, through five of the brilliant jewels of his famous Preludes, to the delicate, dreamy Nocturne. The recital ends with what is currently one of the most popular works in classical music – Ravel’s La Valse. A tribute to the Viennese Waltz, it takes us from a glittering ballroom to the fantastic, fatal whirling of the finale.

Yuxuan Zhao

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Oct 11, 2024

Live at Lunch - RNCM Piano · Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall

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