Saturday 10 March 2012

7.45 pm
at the Middleton Hall, University of Hull

preceded by talk at 6.30 (see below)

Benjamin Frith, piano

The season is rounded off in fine style with an all-Beethoven programme from a master pianist whose playing never fails to impress. Benjamin Frith’s programme provides a splendid survey of the variety and range of Beethoven’s piano music, opening with one of the quirky late sets of Bagatelles and proceeding via the Eroica Variations (on the same theme as the variations in the last movement of the Eroica Symphony) to the colossal Hammerklavier sonata, one of the mightiest peaks in the entire piano literature.

… a formidable talent both musically and technically
Gramophone (on Benjamin Frith’s recording of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations)

Benjamin Frith is an inspired choice… a compelling advocate for the piano BBC Music Magazine