Dutilleux’s Piano Concerto

Young Scottish pianist Alasdair Beatson makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall in a programme opening with Mendelssohn's blazing 'Scottish Sonata', one of the composer's most virtuosic works for piano, followed by Beethoven's agitated piano piece, the 'Appassionata'. The mood shifts with Fauré's elegant, playful Theme and Variations, and the recital ends with Dutilleux's only piano sonata, which itself concludes with a set of variations of dazzling complexity.