Music for Piano: Rachmaninoff and Gershwin

Two giants of the 20th century piano repertoire – one rooted in the grand Romantic tradition of Old Europe, the other lighting up the American Jazz Age.

Rachmaninoff and Gershwin never quite inhabited the same world, yet both found in the piano a vehicle of extraordinary emotional power. In this captivating recital, Ana Bursac navigates both with equal assurance – from the brooding lyricism of Rachmaninoff’s Preludes to the rhythmic wit and blue-tinged nostalgia of Gershwin’s Rhapsody. The programme opens with Tchaikovsky’s beloved The Seasons, a fitting prelude to an evening that celebrates the piano at its most expressive.