SCHUBERT His Life and Times: “Melodies fit for angels”
Jack Gibbons’ 35th Oxford Summer Piano Series
Tickets £20 (Any tickets remaining on the night will be sold on the door of the venue £25 per ticket)
Season ticket covering all 8 concerts of the 2023 Summer Piano Series £88 (The season ticket must be purchased in one transaction. You must have a ticket for each concert in your basket. The discount cannot be applied retrospectively)
SCHUBERT(arranged Liszt) Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel
SCHUBERT(arranged Gibbons) The Trout
SCHUBERT Sonata in A major, D.664
SCHUBERT(arranged Gibbons) Entr’acte no.3 from Rosamunde
SCHUBERT(arranged Tausig) Marche Militaire
SCHUBERT Impromptu in G flat D.899
SCHUBERT Sonata in B flat major, D.960
SCHUBERT(arranged Liszt) Ave Maria
The acclaimed pianist Jack Gibbons celebrates the 35th year of his highly popular Oxford Summer Piano Series, founded in 1988. For the penultimate concert of the series, Gibbons profiles the life and music of Schubert, and brand new programme featured for the first time in this series. Many of Schubert's most poignant masterpieces will be represented, including the Sonata in B flat D.960 composed in the last weeks of Schubert’s tragically short life, the exquisite music from Rosamunde, Liszt's transcriptions of Schubert's songs including the immortal Ave Maria, and much more.
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Jack Gibbons is a unique phenomenon in the musical world of today. Thanks to his virtuosic skills Gibbons can hold an audience in thrall. His concert-giving style is equally attractive: before his performances he talks unassumingly but with great authority from the platform, drawing the listeners into a special relationshipHumphrey Burton CBE
