Peter Seivewright Performs at Poland’s International Piano Forum “In Memoriam Ryszard Bakst”

Each year a prestigious Pianoforte Festival is held in a different city in Poland. Many of the world’s most celebrated pianists regularly perform at this Festival. In February 2019 this Festival will be held in Sanok, in South-East Poland. Sanok is the birthplace of Ryszard Bakst and, twenty years after Bakst’s death, the complete Festival is to be dedicated to Bakst’s memory. The central recital, entitled ‘In Memoriam Ryszard Bakst’, is to be given by Peter Seivewright, one of Bakst’s former students. Seivewright was chosen by the group of distinguished piano Professors in Warsaw and Moscow who run this Festival, in consultation with Ryszard Bakst’s widow, Barbara. The entire committee of Polish and Russian Pianoforte Professors who run this Festival will be present, and indeed three Pianoforte Professors from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow are travelling especially from Moscow to Sanok in order to hear this recital. Peter Seivewright regards this as the greatest honour ever bestowed on him in his long international performing career.

Peter will also perform a preview recital on Saturday 26th January, in the Swinburne Hall, Colchester, England at 2pm.

Learn more about the Festival at interpiano.pl

Peter Seivewright (pianoforte): ‘In Memoriam Ryszard Bakst’

6.00 p.m. Sunday 3rd February 2019

Sanok City Cultural House, Sanok, Poland.

Program

J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

• Prelude and Fugue in E flat minor BWV 853
• Prelude and Fugue in E flat major BWV 852
• Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor BWV 863
• Prelude and Fugue in A flat major BWV 862

Peter Thorne (born 1955)

• Piano Sonata Number 2

Intermission

Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951)

• Sonata Reminiscenza

Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) transcribed Sergei Rachmaninoff 

• Liebesleid 
• Liebesfreud