FANTASY / FANTASIA

SUNDAY 22^ND MARCH at 3PM

DURBAN JEWISH CENTRE – 44 KE Masinga (Old Fort) Rd., Durban

Tickets (Available at the door) R100 – R120

Safe parking – Cash Bar

Music Revival in association with Friends of Music presents a

PIANO RECITAL - FANTASY / FANTASIA - with Christopher Duigan

Christopher Duigan will give one final performance in KZN of his acclaimed pianistic ‘tour de force’ which features fantastical, impulsive and imaginative musical elements as presented in the music of composers Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Aleksander Scriabin and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

A beautiful programme of classical piano music for a Sunday afternoon concert at the Durban Jewish Centre . Titled ‘Fantasy/ Fantasia’ this pianistic ‘tour de force’  features classical repertoire that highlights fantastical, impulsive and imaginative musical elements as presented in the music of composers Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Aleksander Scriabin and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

The year 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's birth (in December 1770) Beethoven is regarded as the most popular and inspirational composer of all time.  In this solo piano recital  Duigan includes Beethoven's 'Sonata quasi una fantasia’ in E-flat major Op 27 No 1, companion to the celebrated ‘Moonlight' Sonata Op 27 No 2. This together with Schumann's Fantasie Op 17, one of the most impassioned  works of the 19th century which Schumann intended as a homage to Beethoven,  are the centre pieces on the programme. 

Frederic Chopin's  Barcarolle Op 60 and music by Russian romantic composers Aleksander Scriabin, including his Sonata No 4, and Sergei Rachmaninoff, a selection of Etudes-Tableaux (or picture studies), complete the programme.

Widely regarded as one of South Africa's leading concert pianists, Duigan has been recognised as a 'South African piano icon’.  Major recital performances include those in Steinway Hall in London, in Mexico City, and as soloist with the Johannesburg, KwaZulu-Natal and Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra.   In 2010 he became one of only six pianists in South African history to be invited to be a 'Steinway Artist', joining an exclusive company of renowned international musicians.  

Based in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands he is committed to promoting classical music concerts locally, both of his own performances and those of others.  

Performances of Duigan’s ‘Fantasy' recital programme were recently presented in  Kloof, Durban, Howick, Pietermaritzburg and Ballito to much acclaim.  For more information visit www.musicrevival.co.za  or

friendsofmusic@webmail.co,za of phone 0715051021 (Keith)