Saturday 08 Mar 2025
7:30pm
Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts || Concert Chamber
$16.50
The Petersens - Live in Concert
Chamber Music New Zealand: Piers Lane
- Saturday 08 Mar 2025
- 7:30pm
- Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts || Concert Chamber
- $16.50
Australian, London-based pianist Piers Lane returns to New Zealand to perform the complete cycle of Frédéric Chopin’s beloved nocturnes.
The 21 nocturnes are among Chopin’s most intimate compositions, suggestive of a myriad of nighttime atmospheres and emotions. Of twilight, dusk and into the dark night. Of contemplation, serenity, melancholy, drama, and joy. They are each elegantly drawn and sensuously beautiful. The first nocturne was composed when Chopin was 17, and with the final nocturne being composed just three years before his death at age 39, additional associative emotions can be imagined.
No praise could be high enough for Piers Lane whose playing throughout is of a superb musical intelligence, sensitivity, and scintillating brilliance.
— Bryce Morrison, Gramophone
ARTIST
Piers Lane piano
PROGRAMME
Frédéric Chopin Nocturnes
This concert is c. 125 minutes with a 20-minute interval