Mosaic Seasons was based in 2023 by composer Tatiana Svetlova as a classical music pageant primarily based within the South of France and Monaco. The pageant envisions envisions a artistic dialogue between music, poetry, artwork, and dance, and its Music of At present collection focuses on modern music. Svetlova is now increasing the attain of the pageant to London and on 14 March 2026 Mosaic Seasons presents Music of Our Time at Bechstein Corridor. Pianists Edna Stern, Evelyne Berezovsky, and Louis-Victor Bak will carry out music by Silvina Milstein, Geoff King, Tatiana Svetlova, Edna Stern, and George Benjamin.
The programme opens with a pairing of Silvina Milstein’s Piano Phantasy after Mozart Ok. 475 and Mozart’s Fantasia No. 4 in C minor, Ok. 475. Milstein’s piece transforms Mozart’s Fantasia right into a rhapsodic exploration of tonality. Geoff King’s David in Hastings is the third motion of his suite household photographs which was written as a companion to Schumann’s Carnaval.
Audiences will hear two works by Tatiana Svetlova that mix playfulness with reflective depth. Sonnets No. 4 and 5 on the Theme of Bach’s Chaconne represents her personal reflections on Bach’s chaconne. Madonna and Baby (for Gaudi’s La Pedrera) is a meditative homage to the architect Antoni Gaudi, who needed to create the sculpture of Madonna and Baby on the roof of La Pedrera in Barcelona, however the developer refused this plan.
Edna Stern will carry out three of her personal compositions: Prelude with no C/do, Etude “La disparition d’après Perec” with out E/mi, and Kidnapped: 7.X.2023. These items are impressed by Georges Perec’s novel La Disparition (a novel written with out the letter E) and his poems that systematically suppress a letter. They discover this systematic absence via musical language.
The night concludes with George Benjamin’s Shadowlines, sequence of six canonic preludes written for Pierre-Laurent Aimard.
Full particulars from Bechstein Corridor web site.
