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John Snijders (piano): Iberian Nights

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22 October 2025 - 22 October 2025

7:30PM - 9:30PM

Concert Room, Music Department, Palace Green

  • £10 standard, £5 students, £1 under-18s

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An evening of lyrical intimacy, full of infinite refinement, brought to you by two major composers to come out of Catalonia. Frederic Mompou has long been a well kept secret. His modest, highly personal music, often reminiscent of that of his friend Erik Satie is only now being recognised as one the true originals within the 20th century piano repertoire.

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John Snijders at the piano

This programme pairs his early set of magical chants with one of his very few larger pieces, an amazing transformation of a Chopin Prélude. In his Goyescas Enrique Granados describes the haunting images of Francisco Goya with a mix of virtuosity and emotional depth, elements that also come to the fore in his rarely heard cycle ‘Romantic Scenes’.

Enrique Granados: Danza Española No.2 “Oriental” (1890)                    

Frederic Mompou: Variations on a Theme by Chopin (1938-57)            

Granados: Goyescas (1911) - El Amor y la Muerte (Balada)      

Granados: Danza Española No.5 “Andaluza” (1890)   

Mompou: Cants Màgics (1917-19)        

Granados: Escenas románticas (1904)               

Pricing

£10 standard, £5 students, £1 under-18s