This past event was cancelled
A concert dedicated to the works of one of Scotland's most famous composers of the 20th century.
Ronald Stevenson was one of the great composer-pianists, a musician in the manner of Liszt, Rachmaninov and, his own personal idol, Paderewski. He was one of the few pianists whose playing was so individual that you could tell who was performing with your eyes closed, and yet he turned his back on the glittering career he could have enjoyed so as to have the time to compose.
And compose he did, producing an extraordinarily generous body of work: a number of large-scale orchestral works, much chamber music and hundreds of piano pieces and songs – 232 songs the last time I counted – and a huge body of transcriptions.
Stevenson is best known for the piece reputed to be the largest single-movement work in the piano literature, his Passacaglia on DSCH, which uses Shostakovich's musical initials to build up a monumental 80-minute structure.
- Venue
- King's College Chapel
- Contact
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Tickets cost £10 full, £5 Concession, Free to students and under 16s.
To be added to the door list, contact
Euan Crabb
Administrator of Music
01224 272570
email: escrabb@abdn.ac.uk