Llyr Williams piano

Performers

Llyr Williams

piano

Programme

Schubert

• Piano Sonata in C D840 ‘Reliquie‘
• Piano Sonata in A minor D845

Webern

Variations Op. 27

Brahms

7 Fantasien Op. 116

Schoenberg

6 Little Piano Pieces Op. 19

About this concert

Llyr Williams turns to Schubert after his recent deep immersion in Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas. The intelligence and imaginative contours of the Welsh pianist’s interpretations bear witness to an artist described by the Guardian as blessed with a ‘sense of wisdom beyond his years’.

Schubert’s Piano Sonata in A minor and its unfinished companion piece, the so-called ‘Reliquie’ sonata, serve as tightly argued, albeit lyrical companions to the free-flowing miniature Fantasien fashioned by Brahms in 1892 and Webern’s pellucid Variations of 1935–6.