This recital of works by Schubert and Chopin features pianist Mehveş Emeç. Born in Istanbul in 1963 as the daughter of the celebrated journalist Çetin Emeç, she is currently a teacher at the Marmara University Atatürk Faculty of Education. Ms Emeç is no stranger to the works of Schubert: following eight years of study at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, she won the Bösendorfer Prize in Austria and the Ravel Prize in France. She then moved to London to receive lessons from Maria Curcio, a pupil of the legendary Schubert interpreter Artur Schnabel who was also the teacher of world-famous pianists such as Martha Argerich, Radu Lupu and Mitsuko Uchida. During her ten-year stay in London, Ms Emeç acquired an extensive repertoire of Schubert’s works – indeed, in 1994 she gave a Schubert recital at the Wigmore Hall.
Her recital begins with Schubert’s Impromptu in B flat major, No 3 of his Four Impromptus, Op. posth. 142 (D 935) – a set of variations on a theme popularly known as ‘Rosamunde’. This will be followed by the same composer’s Three Piano Pieces, D 946. These pieces were written in March 1828, not long before the composer’s death in November of that year, but were not published until they were collected and edited (anonymously) by Brahms in 1868. In the second half, Ms Emeç will play Chopin’s four-movement Sonata No 3 in B minor, Opus 58. Completed in 1844, this sonata is regarded as one of the composer’s most difficult works – from the points of view of both interpretation and piano technique.
This event is one of the ‘Sunday Recitals’ at this venue.
