Acclaimed pianist Jack Gibbons gives a rare Christmas Concert, playing music from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker
TCHAIKOVSKY (arranged Gibbons): The Nutcracker Suite (selection) VIVALDI (arranged Gibbons): The Four Seasons (Winter) CHOPIN: Study Op25 no.11 (Winter Wind) LISZT: Transcendental Study no.12 (Snowstorm) DEBUSSY: The Snow Is Dancing (from Children's Corner) DEBUSSY: Footsteps in the Snow (from Preludes Book I) SCHUMANN: Winter Time (from Album for the Young) CORELLI (arranged Gibbons): Christmas Concerto (Pastorale) GIBBONS: Helvetia carols (selection) GIBBONS: Fantaisie Op.116 GIBBONS: Variations on In Dulci Jubilo and Stille Nacht
The acclaimed pianist Jack Gibbons makes a rare Christmas visit to Oxford from the United States, to give a special concert in celebration of Christmas and the winter solsticeThe programme includes the UK premieres of Gibbons' virtuoso piano arrangements of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, Winter from Vivaldi's Four Seasons, the Pastorale from Corelli's Christmas Concerto, plus winter-themed works by Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Debussy, Gibbons' own variations on Silent Night and In Dulci Jubilo, a music box arrangement of Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, plus two of Gibbons' own Helvetia carols, and another chance to hear his Fantaisie Op.116
"Jack Gibbons is a unique phenomenon in the musical world of todayThanks to his virtuosic skills Gibbons can hold an audience in thrallHis concert-giving style is equally attractive: before his performances he talks unassumingly but with great authority from the platform, drawing the listeners into a special relationship." Humphrey Burton CBE
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