Alistair McGowan — The Piano Show.
Programme.
Philip Glass — Opening Piece, Glassworks
Edvard Grieg — Nocturne Op 54, no 4
Claude Debussy — La Cathedrale Engloutie
JS Bach — Prelude in C
Dario Marianelli — Dawn
Fredryk Chopin — Prelude in C Minor Op 28 no 20
Erik Satie — Gnossienne 1
— Interval (20 minutes) —
Dmitri Shostakovitch — Second Piano Concerto, Second Movement
Yann Tiersen — Le Moulin
Alessandro Marcello — Adagio from Oboe Concerto in D minor
Arvo Part — Fur Alina
Franz Liszt — Consolation no 3
Edward Elgar — Nimrod
Erik Satie — Gymnopedie 1
Encore
Richard Strauss — Morgen (arr. Reger)
Alistair McGowan.
Alistair McGowan
Alistair McGowan is best known for his impressions and won a BAFTA for his television series The Big Impression in 2003.
He has also worked as an actor regularly on radio, occasionally on television and nationwide on stage (being nominated for an Olivier Award for his performance in Little Shop of Horrors. In 2015, he threw himself into learning the piano from almost a standing start and, in 2017, released The Piano Album through Sony Classical reaching number one in the classical charts. He has since toured with The Piano Show the first known show to mix stand-up comedy with classical piano.
In 2023, he set up the first Ludlow Piano Festival - 5 days of piano events in the Shropshire town. This year’s festival of 19 events will run in Ludlow from May 22nd-26th.
He is also pleased to announce the publication of his first poetry collection, Not What We Were Expecting, via Flapjack Books, on June 13th.
