Recitals Australia's Virtuosi Series to Continue with Ian Munro & Elizabeth Layton

Recitals Australia will present the second concert in its Virtuosi Series featuring renowned pianist and composer, Ian Munro, and English born violinist, Elizabeth Layton, in a program of music that will include Beethoven, Debussy, Ysaÿe and Ian Munro's own compositions on Sunday, 10 May, 3:30pm in Adelaide's Elder Hall.

Elizabeth Layton has a distinguished career as soloist and chamber music player working with some of the world's finest ensembles and orchestras. Ian Munro has emerged as one of Australia's most distinguished and awarded musicians, with a career that has taken him to thirty countries in Europe, Asia, North America and Australasia.

"We did some chamber music a long time ago in London" say Elizabeth Layton "but this is the first time, in a long time, that we've played together and I'm really looking forward to it." The programme includes a beautiful selection of intimate works including Beethoven's last violin sonata, which Layton describes as strikingly different from his earlier works. "We think of Beethoven being full of passion and fire but this isn't; it's a gentle, lyrical Beethoven and very beautiful."

The pair will also play Debussy's Violin Sonata in G Minor, written in the last year of the composer's life when he was struggling with throat cancer, Ian Munro's own Blue Rags for solo piano and one of the most demanding and rarely performed pieces in the violin repertoire, Ysaÿe's "Ballade".

The consummate skills of such fine players working together in the wonderful acoustic of Elder Hall will make for a memorable concert that should not be missed.

Recitals Australia will continue its Virtuosi Series with performances by some of today's finest Australian and International musicians including Brett Dean, Paul Dean and Lisa Moore (7 Aug), Geoffrey Collins and Alice Giles (14 Sept) and English piano prodigy, Benjamin Grosvenor (8 Nov).

Further information and Tickets, $35 / $27 concession / $15 student, available at recitalsaustralia.org.au or phone (08) 8266 4936.

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