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Michael Houstoun - Masterpiece Tour

Music to defy Time - What is hidden in this music that generation after generation can find joy and meaning in it? How is it that something so ethereal has the strength to survive unreduced by the battering of time? Let me offer you what I have found in my lifetime search to answer such questions - Michael Houstoun.

Michael Houstoun, iconic Kiwi pianist, returns to Tauranga’s Baycourt theatre to present a programme of masterpieces from the solo piano repertoire. His ‘Music To Defy Time’ programme features Bach’s French Overture, a collection of Baroque dances, followed by Beethoven’s magnificent Sonata in E, Op.109, a spiritual document of great beauty and power. In the second half Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit brings his peerless understanding of the piano’s technical potential together with an exquisite poetic sensibility. The concert closes with the best of all the Bach transcriptions, Busoni’s faithful realization of the great Chaconne for unaccompanied violin, in which the glory of a concert grand piano is fully explored and presented.

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