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The Concert
Date
9 July · Thu · 7pm
Venue
St Leonard · Hythe
Tickets
£25 · Standard
U18s · Free
Duration
60min (no interval)
Artists
Thomas Kelly · piano
John Frederick Hudson · piano
Two pianists. One piano. An evening of four-hand repertoire that opens with a world premiere from John Frederick Hudson and closes with Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition reimagined for four hands at a single keyboard.
Kelly and Hudson trace the piano-duet tradition across three centuries. An interlude for Kelly alone (Beethoven's Sonata No. 1 in F minor) gives way to the shimmering lyricism of Debussy's Petite Suite, one of the most-loved works in the four-hand repertoire. A quieter moment arrives in Hudson's own arrangement of What a Friend We Have in Jesus, written when he was fifteen, before the evening builds to its Mussorgsky finale: the full sweep of Pictures at an Exhibition, reworked for four hands.
The venue is St Leonard's Church, Hythe: a 11th-century Norman church set above the Kent coast, whose vaulted stone interior lends a particular clarity to intimate chamber performance.
PROGRAMME
Hudson: world premiere (5’)
Beethoven: Sonata No.1 in F minor (4')
Claude Debussy: Petite Suite for Piano 4 hands (12’)
Arr Hudson: What a Friend We Have in Jesus (4’)
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (35’)
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