Returning to Bold Tendencies (on the rooftop of a Peckham car park) for a second year, Jeneba Kanneh-Mason will play Shostakovich’s Prelude and Fugue in D Major from his epic cycle of 24 pieces for solo piano written in 1950 followed by Beethoven’s angular, experimental Sonata No. 7 in D Major, and the hazy meditations of Liszt’s Vallé d’Obermann from his Years of Pilgrimage suites.
Liszt’s framing of music’s capacity to mitigate suffering is mirrored in Florence Price’s magnificent Fantasie Negre No. 1 in E Minor, a melodic, expansive and exultant piece based on the African American spiritual “Please Don’t Let This Harvest Pass.”
