Programme:

Fryderyk Chopin - Largo ‘Boże, coś Polskę’

Maria Szymanowska - Nocturne ‘Le Murmure’

Chopin - Mazurka op.63 no.2, Tarantella op.43, Nocturne op.32 no.1, Rondo op.16

Karol Szymanowski - Prelude op.1 no.2, Etude op.4 no.2, Mazurka op.50 nos.1 & 2

Hamilton Harty - Idyll, Arlequin et Colmbine                 

Ignacy Paderewski – Mazurka op.9 no.2, Sarabande op.14 no.2, Krakowiak fantastyczny op.14 no.6

Concert Funded by the Nellie A Baguley Music Fund

Born in Lancashire, Jonathan Powell now lives in southern Poland and travels internationally throughout each year for concerts, recordings and masterclasses. He has played at many of the major European venues and festivals including the Elbphilharmonie, the Wigmore Hall, Heidelberger Fruehling etc. His many recordings mostly encompass late 19th- and 20th-century repertoire; his 7-CD recording of Sorabji's Sequentia cyclica was awarded the Preis des deutsches Schalplattenkritiken in 2021. He has recently been editing from manuscript the music of Hans Winterberg, and his recordings of the First Piano Concerto (with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra) and his five piano sonatas have already appeared. His concert programmes encompass standard repertoire (Chopin, Schumann, late Beethoven especially), as well as much turn-of-the-century material from Central Europe (Szymanowski, Suk, Janáček etc) as well as contemporary music.