Llŷr Williams piano

Performers

Llŷr Williams

piano

Programme

Bach/Busoni

Chaconne in D minor from Violin Partita No. 2 BWV 1004

Beethoven

Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Op. 53 'Waldstein'

Brahms

3 Intermezzi Op. 117

Brahms

Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel Op. 24

About this concert

Busoni’s towering piano realisation of Bach’s famous D minor Chaconne for solo violin and Beethoven’s rhythmically driven Waldstein Sonata contrast with Brahms’s more rhapsodic Intermezzos. In his Handel Variations, Brahms paid tribute not only to the composer whose theme he borrowed, but also to Beethoven, one of the greatest exponents of the piano variation.