Leon McCawley

Leon is very well known to Manchester audiences; his career started at Chet’s through competition successes at BBC Young Musician of the Year, Vienna (Beethoven Competition) and Leeds to its present status as a major international recitalist and recording artist. Hans Gál will be the only unfamiliar composer on the programme - Leon has recorded his piano music, and it is well worth listening to this intriguing mix of romantic harmony and neo-classical texture in advance of coming to the recital. The recital ends with one of Beethoven’s mighty sets of variations — with these and the Diabelli he exploded the form. This is a stylistically varied and highly stimulating programme.Sponsored by an anonymous donor.Programme:Haydn - Sonata in C minor HXVI/20 Hans Gál - Three Preludes Op.65 Chopin - Nocturnes Op.37 No's 1 and 2 Beethoven - 32 Variations in C minor WoO 80