Rippling Imagery

'... evident affinity with music requiring rapid rippling imagery and astute tonal control.'

Music and water — one thinks of La mer (Debussy); La Tempesta di Mare ('The Storm at Sea', Vivaldi); Peer Gynt Suite No 2, Op 55 — Stormful aften på havet (Grieg); Peter Grimes (Britten); Vltava — Moldau (Smetana); 'Festival at Baghdad. The Sea' (Rimsky Korsakov, Scheherazade); Dover Beach (Samuel Barber, 1931) and so on.

Here, in a programme devised by pianist Jeremy Eskenazi, H₂O is found in works of Liszt, Debussy, Beethoven and Chopin.

Born in Paris in 1978, Eskenazi is regularly invited to give concerts, seminars, workshops and lecture-recitals around the world...