Vienna Series

Gusztav Fenyo playing the piano at Paxton House. Photo: Neil Potts

Vienna's contribution to musical history is unquestionably far-reaching. No other European city could claim to have bred and nurtured so many influential composers, from Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven through Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler and Wolf to Schoenberg, Webern and Berg.

The Vienna Series will comprise seven concerts devoted exclusively to music for solo piano by classical composers of the Viennese school. It will include some of the most characterful sonatas and short pieces of Haydn and Mozart, together with the major sonatas of Schubert, including the last posthumous three. The final concert will be dedicated to that towering giant, Beethoven, with a performance of his 'Diabelli Variations' and Op. 126 Bagatelles.

This unique series will be performed by one of Scotland's leading pianists, Gusztáv Fenyő, whose previous cycles of Beethoven's sonatas and Chopin's solo piano works have been a critical and popular success.

Programmes

The series will be held at St Bride’s Episcopal Church, Kelvinside between October 2011 and May 2012. Individual concert dates will be announced shortly.