Piano Classics: Sarah Beth Briggs

BEETHOVEN Bagatelles Op.126 (15’)
C SCHUMANN 4 Pièces fugitives Op.15 (14’)
TAILLEFERRE Sicilienne (3’)
POULENC 3 Novelettes (7’)
R SCHUMANN Waldszenen Op.82 (20’)
BRAHMS Piano Pieces Op.119 (15’)

“An artist of extraordinary magnetism” (Daily Telegraph), Yorkshire pianist Sarah Beth Briggs has enjoyed a distinguished career both on stage and in the recording studio. She returns to the Crucible Playhouse for an afternoon of glittering piano favourites with Music in the Round..

Among the highlights are works by R Schumann and Beethoven: Schumann’s evocative Forest Scenes conjures a mysterious and haunting symbolic world, populated by hunters, lonely flowers and a watchful, prophetic bird; while Beethoven wrote of his lively Bagatelles that these were “quite the best pieces of their kind that I have written”.