Sergio Tiempo at Queen Elizabeth Hall: Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, and Ravel, by Gabriel Kellett
Sergio Tiempo at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre
March 15th , 2011
Franz Liszt - Three Pieces from Les Années de pèlerinage
Sonetto 47 del Petrarca
Sonetto 104 del Petrarca
Sonetto 123 del Petrarca
Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 (Quasi una fantasia – Moonlight)
Fryderyk Chopin - Études
Etude in C, Op.10 no.1
Etude in C sharp minor, Op.25 no.7
Etude in G sharp minor, Op.25 no.6
Etude in C minor, Op.10 no.12
Etude in C minor, Op.25 no.12
Maurice Ravel - Gaspard de la nuit
Franz Liszt - Two Pieces
Consolation No.3 in D flat
Mephisto Waltz no.1
Sergio Tiempo, piano
As usual for me, this was a concert I chose for the repertoire rather than the performer – three of my favourite composers and one (Liszt) I want to investigate further. It's always been pretty much just about the music(, man...), a philosophy I'd like to outgrow. There's not many 'artistes' in classical music that I feel either enthused or knowledgeable enough about to call myself a fan of yet, but one exception is Martha Argerich, who has consistently championed Sergio Tiempo and regularly performs with him. Based on this knowledge and what I'd gathered about him from reading snippets here and there, I went into his debut Southbank performance, part of their International Piano Series, with hopes that he had some of the mercuriality and fire that I love in Argerich.
