Pianist Mehveş Emeç, born in Istanbul in 1963 as the daughter of the celebrated journalist Çetin Emeç, is currently a teacher at the Marmara University Atatürk Faculty of Education. She is no stranger to the works of Schubert: following many years of study at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, she moved to London to receive lessons from Maria Curcio, a pupil of the legendary Schubert interpreter Artur Schnabel. There, she acquired an extensive repertoire of Schubert’s works – indeed, in 1994 she gave a Schubert recital at the Wigmore Hall.
Her programme on December 11 is to begin with Schubert’s Impromptu in B flat major (Opus 142 No 3), a theme and variations on the tune that is popularly known as ‘Rosamunde’. It will then continue with this same composer’s Three Piano Pieces, D 946, written in March 1828, not long before the composer’s death in November of that year. Finally, she will perform Chopin’s four-movement Sonata No 3 in B minor, Opus 58. Completed in 1844, this sonata is regarded as one of the composer’s most difficult works – from the point of view of both interpretation and piano technique.
Issue 66, December 2023
Turkey’s Centenary Issue
