BEETHOVEN SERIES

Please note: this event has been CANCELLED

Fri 20 March 2020

Trinity College

REIKO FUJISAWA - piano, CRAWFORD LOGAN - narrator
Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven - 32 Variations in C minor WoO 80
Muzio Clementi - Sonata in B flat op 24 no. 2
Carl Czerny - Etude no. 12 in D minor op.740
Franz Schubert- Impromptu no. 3 in G flat D.899
Franz Liszt - Etude d’Execution Transcendante no. 10
Ludwig van Beethoven - Bagatelle in A minor no. 25 (Für Elise)
- Sonata in A flat op.110
Richard Wagner arr. Liszt - Isoldes Liebestod

REIKO FUJISAWA – piano
Reiko Fujisawa fuses the sensibilities of a musician raised in the Far East who
trained in the West.
Following study at the Musashino University in Tokyo she spent time in San
Francisco and the UK, where she trained at Trinity College.
With performances at London’s Southbank Centre, Wigmore Hall and King’s Place,
around the UK and abroad, Reiko has established herself as a formidable virtuoso
performer.
Specially devised narration is being created by musicologist, journalist and author
Peter Quantrill, delivered live on stage by actor Crawford Logan for this event.

CRAWFORD LOGAN – narrator
The narrative will highlight the early influences on Beethoven, his innovative genius, and the effect he had on other pianists, composers and instrument makers of his day.
Extracts from his letters and other sources will illustrate Beethoven’s personal
thoughts and experiences, as well as his (sometimes shrewd) dealings.
The exploration will encompass Haydn and Clementi through to Schubert,
Schumann, Brahms, Liszt and Wagner. Music from all periods of Beethoven’s life
will be featured alongside selected works by the composers and pianists whose lives
and output were shaped by him, and who in turn became significant figures in the
romantic era.

Crawford has worked for many years in theatres the length of the United Kingdom,
including three West End shows, most recently 319 performances of “The Woman In Black” at the Fortune Theatre Covent Garden, and overseas in Melbourne,
Washington DC and Hamburg.

Cost: £ 15/ CONC. £ 10 / STUDENTS/CHILDREN £ 5