Lucas Debargue: Beethoven, Gershwin & Liszt

Pianist and composer Lucas Debargue journeys from Scarlatti and Beethoven to his own spectacular reinvention of Gershwin’s iconic ‘Summertime’. Four Scarlatti sonatas open Debargue’s striking performance – miniature worlds in which melody, rhythm and keyboard colour are continually reshaped. Beethoven’s atmospheric Moonlight Sonata is understandably one of the composer’s most widely cherished works. Its famous opening movement may be steeped in nocturnal stillness, but the music grows increasingly restless before erupting into its turbulent finale.