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IGNAS MAKNICKAS
Born in California but raised in Lithuania, Ignas Maknickas grew up in a musical family, one of six children who performed as an ensemble. In 2017 he graduated from the National M.K. ?iurlionis School of Art in Vilnius and entered the Royal Academy of Music, London. He was awarded an ABRSM Scholarship in 2019 and 2020. In the 2018?19 season he performed solo piano recitals in London, Vilnius, Kinross, Paris and Copenhagen, and with chamber ensembles notably the St Christopher Chamber Orchestra of Vilnius and the London Mozart Players.

W.A. MOZART 1756?91 Sonata in F major K 332 (1783)
Allegro ? Adagio ? Allegro assai
Having fallen out with his autocratic patron, the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, Mozart decided to live in Vienna and moved in with his friends the Webers, a family of musicians and singers. After a fraught courtship Mozart married Constanze Weber in July 1782. His bride sang soprano solos at the 1783 première of his great Mass in C minor. At the time, Mozart's compositions, including the set of three piano sonatas he wrote in 1783, were influenced by music in the Baroque style

BACH-BUSONI Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: Chaconne in D minor (1892)
J.S. Bach wrote his Partita No. 2 for solo violin between 1717 and 1720. Over the years many composers, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Brahms among them, made piano arrangements of the Chaconne, 'a towering masterpiece of Western music'. Ferruccio Busoni wrote his famous transcription in 1892. Busoni answers his purist critics by pointing out that Bach was a prolific arranger of his own and other composers' music and would surely have enjoyed this arrangement for the modern piano.

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MAXIM KINASOV
Moscow born pianist Maxim Kinasov first graduated from the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire before coming to the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, where in 2018 he won the college's most prestigious award, the Gold Medal. In 2019 he completed his Master of Music in Performance degree and is currently studying on the RNCM International Artist Diploma course. He performs a wide range of repertoire from Bach to Shostakovich. Maxim is also a keen chamber musician.

FRANZ LISZT (1811?86) Apre?s une lecture du Dante from Années de pèlerinage (1856)
Inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy and Victor Hugo's poem from which Liszt drew his title, this one-movement piece known as the Dante Sonata is more a fantasie than a sonata. In portraying Dante's tumultuous journey through hell the music expresses souls in torment swirling in a whirlwind of chaos and violence. Liszt then undertakes the transformation of the original theme into one of transcendental beauty as Dante finally reaches paradise.

SERGEI RACHMANINOV (1873?1943) ?tudes-Tableaux op 33 (1911)
Rachmaninov composed this set of musical images at his country estate in Tambov, south east of Moscow. These passionate studies express a variety of feelings through often unconventional and demanding keyboard writing. He declined to reveal their inspiration, preferring to let the listener imagine for themselves what they most suggest.

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