Please note that Mishka has revised her programme. It was originally to be all Beethoven - she is now playing Ravel's Miroirs in place of Beethoven's Piano sonata no. 32, op. 111.

Beethoven Piano sonata no.14, op.27 no.2 ‘Moonlight’
Beethoven Piano sonata no.28, op.101
Interval
Beethoven Piano sonata no.6, op.10 no.2
RavelMiroirs

Mishka Rushdie Momen studied with Dame Imogen Cooper and with Sir András Schiff. She has appeared across the USA and Europe, last season’s recitals including Wigmore Hall, Aldeburgh Festival and the re-opening of the Frick Collection, New York.

Her programme includes three Beethoven piano sonatas, from very early to late. She starts in the chronological middle with the lovely ‘Moonlight’ sonata. The catchy name was added by others: Beethoven himself subtitled the sonata ‘Quasi una fantasia’ and it is a kind of fantasy, opening with a dreamy adagio, the melody building to an aching sadness and mystery.

For her final piece, Mishka leaves Beethoven for Ravel. Miroirs is a brilliant impressionistic work, composed when Ravel had begun to make his mark with the public but was still battling for recognition with entrenched powers at Paris Conservatoire. Each one of the five movements is dedicated to a friend and fellow member of the avant-garde club Les Apaches.

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