About The Concert
Canada’s piano-superhero Philip Chiu makes a triumphant return to our stage for a program that includes Edward Elgar’s heart-wrenching Piano Quintet. The keeper of England’s musical heart wrote this masterpiece in the final year of WWI as an elegy to a bygone age. On the first half, Chiu will share music by Amy Beach and Percy Grainger. Our concert opens with a selection of Fantasias by Henry Purcell. These gorgeous pieces are some of the earliest four-voice string music and we can’t wait to experience them in the Winspear Centre’s perfect acoustic.
This concert will include an intermission.
Program to Include
JOHN FIELD
Suite of Irish/English Folk Songs
HENRY PURCELL
Fantasias
EDWARD ELGAR
Piano Quintet, Op. 44
Program subject to change.
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