25 October @ 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
£21.00
Artist:Â Daniele Rinaldo (piano)
Concert Sponsor:Â Austins Department Store
Programme
- Arvo Pärt – Für Alina (1976)
- Maurice Ravel – Miroirs (1904–05)
- Frédéric Chopin – Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60
- Interval
- Peter Nickol – Blue Mix (2002)
- Franz Schubert – Sonata in A major, D 959
About the Concert
The Italian pianist Daniele Rinaldo comes to nadsa on Sunday 25 October with a programme of remarkable range, journeying from the hushed simplicity of Arvo Pärt to one of Schubert’s last and greatest sonatas. Hailed by The New York Times as “a pianist of extraordinary dramatic flair,” Rinaldo has performed in major venues across the world while also pursuing a parallel academic career in economics at the University of Exeter. His is a thoughtfully curated afternoon that sets shimmering Impressionism and a contemporary voice alongside the grand Classical-Romantic tradition.
From Silence to the Grand Romantic Sonata
The recital opens with Pärt’s Für Alina, the spare, meditative miniature of 1976 that gave birth to his celebrated “tintinnabuli” style, its name drawn from the Latin for little bells. From this stillness the programme blossoms into Ravel’s Miroirs, five luminous tone-paintings from 1904–05, among them the fluttering Noctuelles, the desolate Oiseaux tristes, the surging Une barque sur l’océan and the dazzling Spanish Alborada del gracioso. Chopin’s late Barcarolle in F sharp major then closes the first half, its lilting gondolier’s rhythm crowned by some of his richest harmony.
After the interval Rinaldo turns to a contemporary work, Peter Nickol’s Blue Mix of 2002, before the afternoon culminates in Schubert’s Sonata in A major, D 959. The middle work of the three great sonatas composed in the final months of his life in 1828, it is music of breadth and daring, its serene outer movements framing an Andantino whose central storm is among the most startling passages Schubert ever wrote.
About the Artist
Daniele Rinaldo studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Musik-Akademie in Basel, where he gained the Soloist Diploma. He has performed as a soloist in major venues and festivals around the world, from Wigmore Hall and the Barbican to concert halls across Europe and the United States. Something of a polymath, he combines his concert touring with a lectureship in economics at the University of Exeter, where his research spans environmental, development and mathematical economics. The result is an artist of unusual curiosity, equally at home in the introspective and the virtuosic.
Why You Shouldn’t Miss This
From the radiant calm of Pärt to the sweep of late Schubert, Daniele Rinaldo’s recital is one of real imagination, full of colour, quiet and contrast. It promises an afternoon to remember in nadsa’s intimate setting.