Chopin and Liszt: A Dialogue in Étude

As winter settles in and the city slows its pace, we are delighted to invite you to an intimate evening of piano music — a concert conceived in the spirit of the great 19th-century salons.

We are very happy to host as our guest Dmitrii Kalashnikov, a London-based concert pianist whose performances are distinguished by depth, clarity, and refined musical intelligence. Dmitrii has appeared at major venues including Wigmore Hall and across the UK and Europe, and has performed as a soloist with the Russian National Orchestra under Mikhail Pletnev.

This piano recital is presented in the atmosphere of a 19th-century house salon — the intimate world in which Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt first performed their music, shared ideas, and shaped the future of the piano.

At the heart of the programme are Chopin’s Études, Op. 25, where technical invention becomes poetry and emotional restraint conceals extraordinary intensity. These are set in dialogue with Liszt’s Transcendental Études, works that expand the genre towards theatrical scale, ambition, and risk.

The evening concludes with Danse macabre (Saint-Saëns/Liszt, arr. Horowitz), where virtuosity becomes drama and the piano assumes an almost orchestral voice.

Presented at close range, the recital invites you to listen as Chopin and Liszt once did themselves — where nuance, tension, and personality are impossible to hide.

An evening of intimacy, intensity, and transformation — where the etude becomes art, and the salon becomes a space of encounter.