Music
CU Brass Ensemble at the Painted Church
The Cambridge University Brass Ensemble (CUBE) returns to the Painted Church once again for a Sunday lunchtime recital in a varied programme for all.
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Cambridge University Lunchtime Concert | Prokofiev Cinderella
Tue 24 January 2023
West Road Concert Hall
Isaac Sebenius and Tammas Slater Piano duet
Isaac Sebenius piano
Tammas Slater piano
Prokofiev/Pletnev Suite from Cinderella
Isaac Sebenius and Tammas Slater have been playing together as a piano duet for two years as part of the Instrumental Awards for Chamber Music Scheme. The duo present Prokofiev's Cinderella, his seventh and penultimate ballet. The ballet was premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre in St Petersburg in the aftermath of the war. The decimation of the city was depicted in Shostakovich's 7th Symphony, which had an influence of Prokofiev. Prokofiev supplants the heroics and grandeur of Shostakovich's earlier Symphony with melodic and nostalgically Russophone Romantic lushness, though Prokofiev's steely, sardonic side is never far away, and emphasised in this arrangement of the orchestral score for two pianos by Mikhail Pletnev.
Cost: Free admission with retiring donations gratefully received.