Programme notes
Two well-loved etudes by Scriabin link Gubaidulina’s Chaconne, which brings together her love of Bach, jazz and post-Shostakovich pyrotechnics, and Brahms’s Olympian five-movement sonata, a weighty work of bravura and symphonic proportions, composed when he was just 20.
SOFIA GUBAIDULINA Chaconne
SCRIABIN Etude in F sharp, Op 42 No 4, and Etude in C sharp minor, Op 42 No 5
BRAHMS Piano Sonata No 3 in F minor, Op 5