Lyric Landscapes

Lyric Landscapes' Following numerous successful concerts in South African and England, British Violinist Rupert Marshall-Luck and South African pianist Peter Cartwright team up to present a programme of music from their home countries, contrasted with two appealing works from Russian composers in modern traditional or 'neo' styles. Recent concerts by this duo have been praised as “sincere and accomplished” in Seen and Heard International, and “pretty special” in a South African write up. From the neo-Baroque elegance of Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne to the rhapsodic lyricism and driving intensity of Prokofiev’s D Major Sonata, this programme explores the rich variety of musical expression in the 20th Century. Delius’s gentle and elusive Third Sonata evokes the English countryside in its pastoral beauty, combined at times with jazz-like influences from his time in Florida. Klatzow’s bold and evocative Sonata brings the sound world of South Africa into poignant dialogue with the Western classical tradition.