International Piano Series: Mishka Rushdie Momen

‘One of the most thoughtful and sensitive of British pianists’ The Times

Mishka Rushdie Momen studied with Dame Imogen Cooper and with Sir András Schiff at Kronberg Academy. She has appeared across the USA and Europe, her last season’s recitals including Wigmore Hall, Aldeburgh Festival and the Re-opening Festival of the Frick Collection, New York.

Her programme focuses on Beethoven’s piano sonatas, from one of the earliest to the very last. She starts in the chronological middle with the lovely ‘Moonlight’ sonata. The catchy name was added later: Beethoven himself subtitled the sonata ‘Quasi una fantasia’ and it is a kind of fantasy, opening with a blissfully dreamy adagio, the melody building to an aching sadness and mystery.

By the time Beethoven composed Piano Sonata no.32, his deafness was complete and, cut off from the world, his work freer and more intimate. This is a giant of a piece. In two movements only it whirls into chaos, touches depths of profundity, has moments of tranquillity and leaves the listener in awe.

Programme:

Beethoven
Piano sonata no.14 in C-sharp minor, op.27 no.2 ‘Moonlight’
Piano sonata no.28 in A major, op.101
Interval
Piano sonata no.6 in F major, op.10 no.2
Piano sonata no.32 in C minor, op.111

Tickets

Tickets for this concert are available here: https://www.ticketsoxford.com/book/instance/1032001