Name: Talks on Western Classical Music
Start: 2025-02-06T16:00:00+05:30
End: 2025-02-13T16:00:00+05:30
Location: Stuart-Liff Collection Library, NCPA: Mumbai

Stuart-Liff Collection Library: Thursday, 6th February at 4.00 pm Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No.1 in D minor In this series of talks on Western classical music, Dr. Cavas Bilimoria takes listeners through musical concepts, the lives of composers and their famous works, interspersed with examples from recorded music. The first talk this month will dive into Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio No. 1. Beginning with brilliant piano writing infused with musical drama in the first movement, the composition ends with a masterful climactic movement that brings together the lyrical elements like never before. Stuart-Liff Collection Library: Thursday, 13th February at 4.00 pm Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 This talk, the second in the series in February by Dr. Cavas Bilimoria, explores Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Composed in 1875 and revised multiple times after, it is among the best-known of all piano concertos. Tchaikovsky had dedicated it to piano virtuoso Nicholai Rubinstein, who criticised the work and refused to play it, leaving the premiere to Hans von Bülow. The upcoming talk will uncover the composition’s historical relevance and technical intricacies. Entry free on a first-come-first-served basis.