Debussy’s Romantic Piano by Candlelight - Clair de Lune
Open your heart and ears to love as award-winning concert pianist Matthew Shiel exposes the scandalous love affairs of the great composers at St Vincent's Chapel this August!
About Debussy’s Romantic Piano by Candlelight - Clair de Lune
Following their 5***** and sold-out show in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024,
"Matthew Shiel has ‘composed’ a most enchanting concert, relating amusing, enlightening stories to introduce each piece; his eloquent performance expresses a dramatic, emotional mood from sad and sorrowful to light-hearted and lyrical, oozing a joyful sense of romantic love." (5***** Edinburgh Guide)
"A ripping good yarn. Sim and Shiel both are masters of their crafts." (5***** Binge Fringe Magazine)
"Matthew Shiel shone" (4**** Three Weeks)
Moonlight Concerts tour Brighton with a musical show inspired by the most romantic piano pieces ever composed and the mysterious masked balls of Venice.
Tonight, we join acclaimed concert pianist and storyteller Matthew Shiel for a romantic tour of the piano as he exposes the secret love affairs of the great composer’s hearts that have shaped the history of classical music including: Chopin’s scandalous elopement with the French author George Sand and Brahms’ secret affair with his best friend’s wife, Clara Schumann.
Tonight’s musical programme includes several of the most romantic piano pieces ever composed: Liszt’s Liebestraum, Schubert’s Serenade, Chopin’s Raindrop Prelude and Debussy’s Clair de Lune – performed by intimate candlelight.
This concert will also feature a new romantic piece composed specially for tonight's artist by Matthew's Italian friend and composer Dr Alfredo Caponnetto – Notturno VI alongside a digital art exhibition and light installation designed by acclaimed Chinese artist and Disney illustrator Emma Yitong Shen – to create an immersive musical experience designed to fill you with romantic inspiration and open your heart to live and to love.
PROGRAMME
Liebestraum No.3 – Franz Liszt
Serenade – Schubert (arranged for piano by Franz Liszt)
Novelette in E minor (after El amor brujo of Manuel de Falla) – Francis Poulenc
Minuet in G (from Anna Magdalena Notebook of 1725) – Johann Sebastian Bach
Barcarolle (from The Seasons Op. 37b) – Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Intermezzo in A (Op.118, No. 2) – Johannes Brahms
Lea-Rigg – Robert Burns (arranged for piano by Alexander Reinagle)
Notturno VI – Alfredo Caponnetto
‘Raindrop’ Prelude in D-flat major (Op.28 No.15) – Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne in F minor (Op.55 No.1) – Frédéric Chopin
Clair de Lune (from Suite Bergamasque) – Claude Debussy
Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann (Op. 20) – Clara Schumann
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