Leonard Lehrman - Blitzstein: Music for Solo Piano, 1918-1963 (2019) Hi-Res

In February Toccata Classics is releasing the first-ever album of piano music by the American composer Marc Blitzstein (1905–64), played by the man whom Leonard Bernstein called ‘Blitzstein’s dybbuk’, the pianist-composer Leonard Lehrman. Leonard and his wife, the soprano Helene Williams, will be passing through London on their way to a premiere of one of Leonard's works in Germany, and so we grabbed them for an album launch -- and their first-ever appearance in London. They'll present some of the music in the new release as well as some songs and piano pieces that Blitzstein wrote in London -- all of them, almost certainly, first performances in the UK. Join us for what promises to be an unusual and entertaining evening. Drinks and nibbles as usual.