Fauré's intricately structured Theme & Variations is one of the few examples of variation form in French keyboard music. It is grand, spaciously lyrical and brilliant. The poised Nocturne 11 and elusive 8th Barcarolle could not be more different.
Ravel's homage to the romantic imagination and Liszt, in the form of three tone-poems, is notorious for its technical demands. Its unsurpassed beauty, extraordinary keyboard effects and astonishing vision set apart from almost all other piano works.
more about David Christophersen
Oslo-born David Christophersen, Artistic Director of the Cambridge Concert Artists series at West Road Concert Hall, has performed throughout the UK, including the Woburn Abbey Festival, Bristol's St. George's, Edinburgh's Reid Hall, Oxford's Holywell Music Room, London's St John's Smith Square and broadcast for BBC Radio 3. Recent projects have included premiering new solo and chamber music by Jeremy Thurlow, Maria Ptaszynska and Robin Holloway; performances with Marie-Noelle Kendall of Robin Holloway's monumental two-piano classic 'Gilded Goldbergs' and a tour with Prokofiev's War Sonatas, described by the Scotsman as 'exactly right'.
