The Chopin Society UK

Programme

Murray McLachlan combines a multifaceted career as pianist, recording artist, writer, lecturer, and music educator. With a repertoire of 25 recital programmes and 40 concertos he has performed to critical acclaim on all five continents and has a discography of over 40 releases. He has written three critically acclaimed books on piano technique (Faber Music) and his quarterly column for International Piano Magazine has been running for over twenty years.

He is Founder/Artistic Director of the world famous Chetham’s International Summer school and festival for Pianists, Europe’s largest summer school devoted exclusively to the piano.

He will play:

• Haydn – Sonata in E flat Hob. XVI/52, L. 62
• McLachlan—Homage à Godowsky (Nocturne Op.9 No.2 for left hand)
• Beethoven – Sonata in C minor op. 111
Chopin – 4 Ballades:
• No. 1 in G minor Op. 23
• No. 2 in F major/A minor Op. 38
• No. 3 in A flat Op. 47
• No. 4 in F minor Op. 52

Our piano, a fine 2015 Hamburg Steinway Model B Grand, chosen for us by Ulrich Gerhartz, Steinway’s Head of Artist & Concert Services, is maintained by Steinways and tuned by them immediately before each performance.

After the concert we offer a delicious buffet tea of freshly-made sandwiches, savouries, homemade cakes and chocolate biscuits, with a choice of a glass of excellent wine, tea, coffee or juice. The artists usually attend the tea and you can meet them. Tea tickets are sold on the door. They are £10 (standard), £5 for students and schoolchildren. We can cater for up to 70.