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Tales Without Words


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Tales Without Words is an evening of storytelling and evoking your imagination
Part I - At the Forgotten Ball
The evening opens with Medtner's Sonata Reminiscenza, a piece that feels like a memory rising to the surface before it has found words - searching, tender, incomplete. It leads into Bach's English Suite No. 2 in A minor, where storytelling takes on the shape of Baroque dance, full of life, wit and reflection.
Part II - Encountering Fate
Bach's English Suite No. 3 in G minor returns to that same courtly language in a darker key, before a set of Medtner's Skazki ("Tales") - some of the most explicitly narrative pieces ever written for solo piano, though what tale each one tells is left entirely to the listener. The evening closes with Chopin's Ballade No. 1 in G minor, a piece that behaves like a story in the truest sense: it has a beginning, a rising tension, and a conclusion that arrives less like a resolution than an inevitability.


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