Classical Preview: Expect towering performances at the ivories

One unknown and two familiar faces this coming week offer a wide spectrum of piano music, with the Serbian-born virtuoso, Tamara Stefanovich, appearing on Monday at the keyboard of the magnificent piano housed in Harrogate's Wesley Chapel.

She is the latest in the venue's series of young pianists who are well-established on the international scene, having already appeared with such famous ensembles as the Cleveland, Chicago, London Symphony, London Philharmonic and Salzburg Camerata orchestras.

More frequently seen at such venues as New York's Carnegie Hall, the Vienna Konzerthaus and London's Wigmore Hall, she has slipped this appearance into a very busy diary that comes a couple of months before a tour of Japan.

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Here, she looks at Bach's music directly and then through the eyes of two arrangers, Liszt and Busoni, including the technically- demanding Weinen Klagen Sorgan Zagen.

A massive time shift finds Tim Horton, part of the original Ensemble 360, playing music of a more modern ilk by Chopin, Bartok and concluding with Ravel's grisly Gaspard de la Nuit in a recital in Sheffield's Upper Chapel on Tuesday.

Next Friday we welcome back Sarah Beth Briggs whose marriage took this gifted young pianist to the south of the country. She brings to Hull music by Haydn, Schubert, Schumann and ends with Chopin's Fantasy in celebration of the bicentenary of the composer's birth. Booking details are in today's Classical Listings.

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