KINO-TEATR

An exhibition of ‘Yukata’ or simple kimono by Hastings based designer Geoff Stocker.

Each piece has a unique pattern engineered to its distinctive ‘T’ shape that has been printed onto silk.

All yukata are for sale.​

A 2025 historical drama starring Liam Cunningham, Jeremy Irons, Karim Daoud Anaya, Hiam Abbass, Robert Aramayo, Yasmine Al Massri and Billy Howle.

'This is the origin of where we are today' says Palestine 36 writer/director Annemarie Jacir in her interview with the Financial Times.

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'Impassioned epic set during the Arab revolt against British colonial rule' Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

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'Palestine’s Oscar entry is stirring historical drama from Annemarie Jacir' Screen International

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'The feel of Palestine 36 is epic but the stories are deeply personal' The London Standard

Join us for a night of exciting musical cocktail of an amusing and compelling entertainment at the ‘goings-on’ in London’s first luxury hotel, The Savoy!

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Opening in 1889, the hotel attracted the most glittering stars of the era - the painters, writers and artistes of its time. The fabulous singers/performers Louise Winter, William Hancox and Karen Drury bring to life the incredible moments and stories from the Strand, meeting the renowned characters who strolled through the revolving doors of this iconic hotel, illustrated with slides of the places and personalities.

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Some of the pieces performed and stories told:

The River’s Tale by Rudyard Kipling.
The founding of the Palace-Shakespeare’s Sceptred Isle speech by John of Gaunt and Fairest Isle by Purcell.
Destruction of Palace and Robert Schumann song Auf Einer Burg.
D’Oyly Carte-Music Hall and Gilbert and Sullivan extract from their light opera Patience/Oscar Wilde.
The Savoy Theatre, the Hotel, song by Poulenc.
Food, Auguste Escoffier, song, The Tale of the Oyster by Cole Porter and poem Come feed ith me and be my love.
Lily Langtry and the Prince of Wales - The Lady is a Tramp.
Opera singers Nellie Melba and Luisa Tetrazzini and comic Duetto Buffo Di Due Gatti by Rossini.
Whistler and Monet with L’Invitation au Voyage by Duparc and Die Nacht by Berg.
Zola, Sarah Bernhardt,A Foggy Day in London Town by Gershwin, The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett extract.
The American bar, Ada Coleman.
The in house bands, Gershwin piano solo of The Man I Love/Tango Teas.
Scandals, Oscar Wilde, Billie Carlton, Marguerite Fahmy and Miss Otis Regrets by Cole Porter.
The War, Noel Coward and Carol Gibbons' I’ll See You Again song.
Marlene Dietrich and Falling in Love Again. Richard Harris. 
Kasper the Cat and Cabaret by Kander and Ebb.

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Performers:
Louise Winter
Louise began her career at Glyndebourne Festival Opera and then sang internationally. Yet most notably Louise is proud of her Work at the Royal Opera House, Scottish Opera, Opera North and ENO, always singing principal roles. She has recorded for the BBC and Hyperion Records.

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William Hancox. After a degree at Cambridge, Will studied with Hungarian pianist Joseph Weingarten, a student of Dohnanyi, Barton and Kodaly. His career as an accompanist, chamber musician and soloist has taken him all over the UK, Europe and the Far East, from London’s South Bank to the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing.

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Karen Drury. After training at RADA, Karen worked extensively in the theatre in classical and comedy roles working with Nicholas Hytner and Alan Ayckbourn, favourite roles being Natalya Petrovna in Tugenev’s A Month in the Country and Laura in Brief Encounter. Television work includes David Nobbs' A Bit Of A Do and the ill fated Susannah in Brookside for which she was nominated for a BAFTA. Film work includes Attenborough’s Cry Freedom and Still Life with Eddie Marsan.

Remi Harris is a jazz, gypsy jazz, blues & rock guitarist  whose playing draws inspiration from artists such as Django Reinhardt, Peter Green, Wes Montgomery, Gerry Mulligan and Jimi Hendrix. He has performed at many prestigious events and venues around the world, including the Montreal Jazz Festival, Buckingham Palace, BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall with Jamie Cullum, and appeared on national radio and television.
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'He's an absolutely extraordinary musician' Jamie Cullum, BBC Radio 2​

'Astonishing stuff' Cerys Matthews, BBC Radio 2 & BBC 6 Music

​​'Remi Harris is an astounding player in many styles' ★★★★★ Guitar Techniques Magazine

​'An incredible display of melodic improvisation' 8/10 Guitarist Magazine

​​'A remarkable musician' ★★★★ Jazz Journal

'Remi is a phenomenal player' Martin Taylor MBE
​'One of the UK's brightest guitar talents" Music Radar

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​​Remi Harris is joined by double bassist Tom Moore and rhythm guitarist Chris Nesbitt, performing music ranging from the acoustic jazz of the 1930s and 40s to the electric blues of the 60s and 70s. The show features an eclectic mix of jazz and blues standards, original compositions, improvisations and new arrangements of familiar tunes. Remi plays a variety of acoustic and electric guitars, and the ease and warmth of his stage presence, together with his virtuoso talent, will have concert goers captivated by his passion for the guitar.

The Acappella Bellas

Songs from the folk traditions of Bulgaria, Georgia and beyond.

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​Shelagh Davis, Jilly Hall, Lotte Risbridger and Nicky McDonald are the Acappella Bellas. Based in Hastings and St Leonards, they met at a community choir discovering a shared love of the haunting harmonies of Eastern European music and started singing together in 2013.

The magician Herr Drosselmeyer needs to save his nephew. Hans-Peter has been transformed into a Nutcracker; the only way to save him is for the Nutcracker to defeat the Mouse King and find a girl to love and care for him. A flicker of hope comes in the form of the young Clara, whom Drosselmeyer
meets at a Christmas party. With some magic, a cosy Christmas gathering turns into a marvellous adventure.

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Peter Wright’s The Nutcracker has enchanted audiences since its 1984 premiere by the Company. Featuring Tchaikovsky’s most familiar melodies and brought to life by Julia Trevelyan Oman’s exquisite designs, The Nutcracker is sure to be a festive firecracker for all ages.

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Running time: 210 minutes. One Interval.

The Fifth Step by David Ireland
Directed by Finn den Hertog
 
Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland.

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After years in the 12-step programme of Alcoholics Anonymous, James becomes a sponsor to newcomer Luka. The pair bond over black coffee, trade stories and build a fragile friendship out of their shared experiences. But as Luka approaches step five – the moment of confession – dangerous truths emerge, threatening the trust on which both of their recoveries depend.

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Finn den Hertog directs the provocative and entertaining production filmed live from @sohoplace on London’s West End.

A 2025 American biographical comedy-drama directed by Richard Linklater, inspired by the letters of Lorenz Hart and Elizabeth Weiland. The film stars Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Scott. Its plot follows Hart as he reflects on himself on the opening night of Oklahoma!, a new musical by his former colleague Richard Rodgers.

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Blue Moon had its world premiere at the main competition of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance for Andrew Scott.

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'Ethan Hawke is terrific in Richard Linklater’s bitter Broadway breakup drama'**** The Guardian

One of the country's top jazz artists, Pete Long spends most of his time directing the Big Band at Ronnie Scott’s alongside his own projects. These include his award-winning repertory orchestra Echoes Of Ellington, whose 2018 album The Jazz Planets won the Times Must Have Jazz CD Of The Year. Further commissions have involved a re-imagining of Swan Lake in the style of Duke Ellington, and a transcription and re-orchestration of The Days Of Future Passed for the Moody Blues. In the course of this work, Pete has provided musicians and arrangements for Claire Sweeney, Jane MacDonald, Humphrey Lyttelton, Sir John Dankworth, the entire cast of Emmerdale (!) and a host of others.

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As well as all the reeds Pete is an accomplished guitarist and bass player, in fact almost as prolific a multi instrumentalist as Mike Hatchard. If you attend one of their shows and manage to make a complaint about their lack of versatility you have to be from another planet.

Their Christmas show promises to combine irrepressible musical virtuosity with off the wall humour besides much needed festive optimism.

​Simon&thePope will play some of their trademark hypnotic drum, bass and vocal grooves, accompanied by Rob Leake on saxophone, to help while away that anticipatory hour before The Bavard Bar.

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​What is The Bavard Bar? Well, it has become an institution. The best way to describe it is a delightful blend of TED Talks, comedy, & Radio 4. Sort of...

When you come along to The Bavard Bar, you will hear three regular people share their passions for 15 minutes each. The evening is interspersed with music and audience participation games, such as the "KP Lite" challenge, The "Oojah Kappivvy", and "Make it Stop", amongst others!

Past Bavard subjects range from meteorite hunting to crop-circles, circuit-bending to playing the James Bond theme on Kazoo. You never know what (or who) to expect, as passions (and speakers) are kept secret until the night. There is also a Q&A section after each talk for you to share an opinion, or learn even more about the subject.

And now, in very exciting news, the evening is compered by a special secret guest host… think along the lines of Have I Got News for You!

A night of non-stop intrigue, complete with not one, but two, short intervals. The bar will be open, & snacks will be available. 

Past speakers have included Robin Ince, Professor Simon Schaffer, Dr Ljiljana Fruk, Cole Moreton and David Bramwell.

A great way to meet new people. Come along!

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​A 2025 British historical drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner and written by Alan Bennett. Set in 1916, during World War I, in the fictional town of Ramsden, Yorkshire, the film follows the members of the local choral society which recruits a group of teenage boys and girls for a performance of Edward Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius, a work chosen because it was not written by a German. It stars Ralph Fiennes, Roger Allam, Mark Addy, Alun Armstrong, Robert Emms and Simon Russell Beale.

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​A 1940s vintage Christmas screening, talk and launch event with Dr Helen Jacey, local writer of the Elvira Slate crime novels. Helen will be  introducing a Hollywood classic film I’ll Be Seeing You (1944, directed by  William Dieterie) which  follows a romantic encounter at Christmas between a female prisoner (Ginger Rogers) and a GI (Joseph Cotten). When trauma support and rehabilitation of offenders were both in their infancy, the film - unusually for Hollywood – movingly addresses shame and recovery. A teenage Shirley Temple also appears.

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Helen’s pre-film talk will also include the premier of the music video My Particular Guy, the theme-tune to her 1940s detective novel Chipped Pearls in the Elvira Slate Investigations series. And to celebrate the new Elvira Slate short story Hatpin Job, ticket holders are encouraged to don a hat! The wearer of the best hat will win a box set of Elvira Slate mini-mysteries! Helen will be signing books after the screening.

Enjoy the dark Christmas glamour of the 1940s!

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Christmas Special at Kino-Teatr with Liane Carroll, accompanied by Roger Carey on bass and Russell Field on drums.

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​London born, Hastings raised, award-winning singer-pianist Liane Carroll is one of the UK's greatest musical treasures. A soulful, emotive singer, Liane is capable of reducing other singers and listeners alike to tears with her heartbreaking ability to live a lyric or make them jump with joy with her breathless vocal virtuosity.

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​What really makes Carroll stand out is that she sings every song as if she wrote it. Classically trained since she was three, Carroll is a superb pianist and her unique ability to inhabit a lyric is underpinned by a true musicality that lifts her interpretations into the realms of art in their own right.

Live sultry & western music from The Aftershave with gallery projections from Duncan Reekie.

A 1946 American Christmas fantasy drama produced and directed by Frank Capra, based on the short story and booklet The Greatest Gift, which Philip Van Doren Stern self-published in 1943 and which is in turn loosely based on the 1843 Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol.

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​​The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who has given up his personal dreams, in order to help others in his community, and whose thoughts of suicide on Christmas Eve bring about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody.

The return of Kino-Teatr's favourite flamenco dancer Jesus Olmedo for a Noche de Reyes special.

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Featuring Marina Tamayo & Jesus Olmedo, Adrian Sola, Rut Santamaria & Demi Garcia.

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Nuremberg is a 2025 American historical drama written and directed by James Vanderbilt. Based on the 2013 book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai, the film follows U.S. Army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley (the Academy Award winner Rami Malek) who seeks to carry out an assignment to investigate the personalities of Hermann Göring (the Academy Award Winner Russell Crowe) and other high-ranking Nazis in preparation for and during the Nuremberg trials.

Leo Woodall, John Slattery, Mark O'Brien, Colin Hanks, Wrenn Schmidt, Lydia Peckham, Richard E. Grant and Michael Shannon star in supporting roles. 

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A 2025 dark comedy-drama written and directed by British director Harry Lighton  in his directorial debut, based on the 2020 novel Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones. The film stars Harry Melling (The Queen’s Gambit) as a timid gay man and the Golden Globe winner Alexander Skarsgård (Big Little Lies, Succession) as an enigmatic biker who start a BDSM relationship. 

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'Funny, touching and alarming' ★★★★ The Guardian
'A steamy art house psychodrama' Variety

'Hilarious and moving' ★★★★ The Times

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A Polish pianist and recording artist based in London, Eva will be performing her new programme which includes Mozart, Garuta Preludes and some Lithuanian Winter sketches by Dvarionas. 

At one of her lavish parties, celebrated Parisian courtesan Violetta is introduced to Alfredo Germont. The two fall madly in love, and though hesitant to leave behind her life of luxury and freedom, Violetta follows her heart. But the young couple’s happiness is short-lived, as the harsh realities of life soon come knocking.

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As intimate as it is sumptuous, La traviata features some of opera’s most famous melodies, and is a star vehicle for its leading soprano role sung by Ermonela Jaho. In director Richard Eyre’s world of seductive grandeur, the tender and devastating beauty at the centre of Verdi’s opera shines bright.

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Running time: 240 minutes 
Sung in Italian with subtitles

Kianush Robeson playing Andres Segovia & Julian Bream

Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Directed by Robert Hastie

Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.

Trapped between duty and doubt, surrounded by power and privilege, young Prince Hamlet dares to ask the ultimate question – you know the one.

National Theatre Deputy Artistic Director, Robert Hastie (Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Operation Mincemeat) directs this sharp, stylish and darkly funny reimagining.

Programme
Liszt - Années de pèlerinage - Part one Switzerland

Chapelle de Guillaume Tell
Au lac de Wallenstadt
Pastorale
Au bord d'une source
Orage
Vallée d'Obermann
Eglogue
Le mal du pays (Heimweh)
Les cloches de Genève (Nocturne)

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'Derek Wang deserves special praise. Game for anything, he played piano, harpsichord and synthesizer with equal conviction and enviable idiomatic rigor' — The Wall Street Journal

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After a successful premier recital at Kino-Teatr, Simone Tavoni returns with a new programme of Chopin, Bach, Albéniz (Jerez from the piano suite Iberia) and pieces by German-Polish composer Moritz Moszkowski (1854 – 1925). 

Simone Alessandro studied in Italy (Florence and La Spezia), in Budapest (Liszt Academy), Royal College of Music in London and Hochschule fur Musik in Stuttgart.

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He has performed in some major venues in Europe and the UK - the Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, St. Martin in the Field’s, Steinway Hall of London, Leighton House, Chelsea Art Club, Chichester Cathedral, Winchester Cathedral, Salon Christopher (Berlin), Palau de la Musica Catalana (Spain), Liszt Museum in Budapest (Hungary) and Florence Conservatory Hall.

The Songs of Fabrizio De André concert is a creative tribute to Italy’s greatest song writer, by Fabrizio Gonella and Sergio Dogliani, with Matt Armstrong and Jason McNiff. The band includes two  guitars, double bass, ukulele, piano and melodica. 

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Fabrizio Cristiano De André (1940 – 1999) was the most prominent Italian singer-songwriter of his time. His career reflects his interests in concept albums, literature, poetry, political protest and French music. Considered a prominent member of the Genoese School he sang in both Italian and other languages such as Neapolitan, Genoese, Sardinian and Occitan.

Because of the success of his music in Italy and its impact on the Italian collective memory, many public places such as roads, squares and schools in Italy are named after De André. 

Bach, Schumann, Stravinsky, Szymanowski

Virginia Woolf defied literary conventions to depict rich inner worlds – her heightened, startling and poignant reality. Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor leads a luminous artistic team to evoke Woolf’s signature stream of consciousness writing style in this immense work that rejects traditional narrative structures. Woolf Works is a collage of themes from Mrs Dalloway, Orlando, The Waves and Woolf’s other writings.

Created in 2015 for The Royal Ballet, this Olivier-award winning ballet triptych captures the heart of Woolf’s uniquely artistic spirit.

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Running time: 210 minutes 

Kino welcomes the return of Hastings saxophonist Chris White’s afrobeat project Samaki. With a repertoire based on the sound of 1970s African musicians like Fela Kuti, Tony Allen, and Oscar Sulley,

Samaki brings the afrobeat elements of relentless grooves and soaring melodies to the stage.

Later Life Letter tells the story of Luke Wright’s adoption – the life he leads, and the one he might have done. What’s it like to stumble across your birth mother on Facebook? How do you honour the parents who have raised you while satisfying a curiosity about where you came from? Is it telling that you married a social worker?

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Wright navigates his audience through a warm and honest hour of poems and stand-up with the wit, pathos, and silliness that has made him one of the most popular live poets in England. 

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This is a frank account of what it means to be someone’s child told by a performer who really knows what he’s doing. Expect raucous laughter, tear-stained cheeks, and a little smattering of drum n bass.

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“Witty observation and rollicking acuity” 
★★★★ Guardian

“His poems shoot arrows through the heart.” 
★★★★★ List

“A sharpness and wisdom that lifts the soul and soothes the battered heart.” 
★★★★ Scotsman

“A streetwise panache and a sardonic comic verve to rival Stewart Lee.” 
★★★★★ Telegraph

“Honesty, humour, ire and wonder. He is at the peak of his powers.” 
★★★★★ Stage

A duo formed by a  British bass clarinettist Hannah Shilvock and Bulgarian clarinettist Boyan Ivanov, now based in London. Both acclaimed musicians performed at Kino-Teatr before as solo performers. We are looking forward to welcoming their new programme!

Karl Lutchmayer is equally renowned as a concert pianist and a lecturer. He performs across the globe, and has performed at all the London concert halls. He has broadcast for the BBC, All India Radio and Classic FM, and has lectured at institutions including the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School, and the University of Oxford. Karl studied at Trinity College of Music Junior department and at the Royal College of Music and subsequently, for 15 years, was a
senior academic lecturer at Trinity Laban.

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He is currently undertaking research at the University of Cambridge alongside leading music education projects and nurturing young musicians in India, his family home. It was for this work that he was awarded the Bharat Gaurav (Pride of India) Lifetime Achievement award in 2015 and the Indians of the World Medal in June 2022.

Two locally connected acts return to Kino-Teatr to perform material from their critically highly acclaimed recent album releases.

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The N.J.E. set will feature tracks from Tritone, their 2025 LP on Dimple Discs & Anthony Moore & Friends will be performing songs from On Beacon Hill, recently released on Drag City records.

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Franz Schubert & Frederic Chopin 

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Moments Musicaux, D. 780 No. 1 

Mazurka, Op. 63 No. 2 

Moments Musicaux, D. 780 No. 3 

Mazurka, Op. 7 No. 4 

Moments Musicaux, D. 780 No. 6 

Mazurka, Op. 6 No. 2 

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Erik Satie & Claude Debussy 

Gnossienne No. 1 

Clair de Lune 

Je Te Veux 

The Snow Is Dancing 

Gnossienne No. 4 

Minstrels 

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This recital pairs Schubert with Chopin, and Satie with Debussy — composers who found remarkable expression in intimate musical forms.

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Schubert’s Moments Musicaux and Chopin’s Mazurkas share a quixotic nature and the spirit of experiment. Both explore surprising turns of harmony and rhythm: Schubert through shifting moods and unexpected modulations, and Chopin through subtle rhythmic inflections that transform the Polish dance into something deeply personal and poetic.

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In the second half, Satie and Debussy reflect a friendship marked by both admiration and tension. Satie’s Gnossiennes and Je te veux reveal his spare, unconventional style, while Debussy’s Clair de lune, The Snow Is Dancing, and Minstrels expand these ideas with greater colour and nuance — shaped, too, by the lingering influence of Chopin. 

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Together, these works trace a path from Romantic intimacy to modern refinement, showing how small forms can hold entire worlds of imagination.

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