Piano Classics

BEETHOVEN Bagatelles Op.126 (15’)
C SCHUMANN 4 Pièces fugitives Op.15 (14’)
TAILLEFERRE Sicilienne (3’)
POULENC 3 Novelettes (7’)
R SCHUMANN Waldszenen Op.82 (20’)
BRAHMS Piano Pieces Op.119 (15’)

“An artist of extraordinary magnetism” (Daily Telegraph), Yorkshire pianist Sarah Beth Briggs has enjoyed a distinguished career both on stage and in the recording studio. She returns to the Playhouse for an afternoon of glittering piano favourites.

Among the highlights are works by R Schumann and Beethoven: Schumann’s evocative Forest Scenes conjures a mysterious and haunting symbolic world, populated by hunters, lonely flowers and a watchful, prophetic bird; while Beethoven wrote of his lively Bagatelles that these were "quite the best pieces of their kind that I have written".