7.7.2023
st mary at hill
lovat lane
london ec3r 8ee
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This programme was curated around a performance of Erik Satie’s Socrate, still rarely heard, an unostentatious yet singular and unique work. Continuing the interior quietude with Walter Zimmermann’s Abgeschiedenheit, music of solitude and seclusion, followed by Galina Ustvolskaya’s Piano Sonata No.4 from 1957, the contemplative spare quiet lines of a creative isolation, and ending the programme with the defiant concrete blocks of her Piano Sonata No.6 (1986).