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Francisco Costa

Piano Series

Twentieth-century Russian and Soviet music dominates the recital by the young Portuguese pianist Francisco Costa. Fluctuating between the Romantic and Modernist piano traditions, this exciting programme presents contrasting facets of three piano masters. Scriabin’s Sonata was written at a transitional moment when the composer, the great heir to Chopin’s musical tradition, was creating a mystical and personal modernist style. Completed in 1913 and revised in 1931, Rachmaninoff’s Sonata No. 2 stands out as a synthesis of the Romantic and virtuoso piano language, a simultaneously expanded and abridged reworking of 19th-century expressivity through a profoundly Russian prism. Prokofiev wrote Sonata No. 6 in 1940 during World War II and the Soviet Union’s heavy involvement. The work reflects the composer’s eclectic approach, in which instability and horror parallel humour and nostalgia. Three Russian voices brought together in a very special recital.

07.01.2025