21 November 2026
Danny Driver Variations IV
Time
7:30 PM
Venue
Wigmore Hall
Program
Claude Debussy Images (book 1)
Amy Williams Piano Portraits (selection)
Claude Debussy Images (book 2)
Rachmaninoff Étude-Tableau Op 39 no 2
Thea Musgrave Snapshots
Musorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
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Debussy’s two books of Images contain some of the composer’s most evocative and beautiful pieces, the rippling ‘Reflets dans l’eau’ and ‘Poissons d’or’ among them. Danny Driver, lauded by San Francisco Classical Voice for his ‘dazzling virtuosity’ and ‘interpretive depth’, sets their shimmering tone colours in company with a sequence of Piano Portraits by Amy Williams, character studies inspired by what the American composer and pianist calls ‘the pianists in my life’. Mighty works by Rachmaninov and Musorgsky, each related to visual imagery, flank the heady nostalgia of Thea Musgrave’s Snapshots.