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Piotr Anderszewski plays Bach

,Barbican Hall
Piotr playing the piano

One of the pre-eminent pianists of our time embraces one of the repertoire’s profoundest challenges, as Piotr Anderszewski plays a selection of Bach’s Preludes and Fugues. 

In The Well-Tempered Clavier, Bach laid down some simple parameters, and transformed a set of technical exercises into one of the noblest achievements in the history of keyboard music. It’s a conversation that any serious pianist has to have: and Piotr Anderszewski has never backed away from a challenge. 

If you’ve followed Anderszewski’s career since his triumph at the 1990 Leeds International Piano Competition, you’ll already know how his playing combines virtuosity, humility and a fierce intelligence. He can never simply play music: ‘I absorb it to the extent that it becomes part of me and I become part of it’, he says. So his encounter with Bach will be rather more than just a meeting with one of western culture’s most beautiful minds.

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This performance will end at approximately 9pm, including a 20 minute interval.

Programme

  • Johann Sebastian Bach   Prelude and Fugue No 1 in C major, BWV 870
  •   Prelude and Fugue No 2 in C minor, BWV 871
  •   Prelude and Fugue No 11 in F major, BWV 880
  •   Prelude and Fugue No 22 in B-flat minor, BWV 891
  •   Prelude and Fugue No 7 in E-flat minor, BWV 876
  •   Prelude and Fugue No 16 in G minor, BWV 885
  •   Prelude and Fugue No 9 in E major, BWV 878
  •   Prelude and Fugue in G-sharp minor, BWV 887
  •   Prelude and Fugue in A-flat major, BWV 886
  •   Prelude and Fugue No 8 in D-sharp minor, BWV 877
  •   Prelude and Fugue No 23 in B major, BWV 892
  •   Prelude and Fugue No 24 in B minor, BWV 893

Performers

  • Piotr Anderszewski   piano

Reviews

‘‘.. extraordinary.. with a Glenn Gould-like clarity to the textures and rhythmic articulation, informed by a freewheeling imagination ‘
The Guardian

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