Nelson Goerner piano by Händel, Schumann, Balakirev, M., 月 25 3月 2024, から (2024/2024), Wigmore Hall, London, United Kingdom

The Argentinian pianist’s programme brings together Schumann’s 18 miniature pieces, which the composer began working on just a week after his secret engagement to Clara, with Balakirev’s Islamey which was described by music critic Harold C Schonberg as ‘at one time…considered the most difficult of all piano pieces and is still one of the knucklebusters’.