Conservatorium of Music
Thursday Concert Class
Thursday Concert Class
| Sonata in A Major. BWV 1032 | Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) |
| ii. Largo e dolce iii. Allegro | |
| Wil Rigby, Flute | |
| Leigh Harrold, piano | |
| The Flute Sonata in A major was composed around 1736 whilst Bach was living in Leipzig.. The only manuscript of the score that exists is a copy written at the bottom of the score of BWV 1062 - Concerto for two Harpsichords in C minor. The remainder of the first movement after bar 62 was lost as the pages were torn out, the second and third movements being the only complete movements. Unusually, the second movement is in the sonata's parallel key of A minor as opposed to the more common convention of the time of being in the relative minor, followed by the Allegro returning to complete the sonata back in A major. | |
| Sonata natalis in C Major | Pavel Josef Vejvanovsky (1633 - 1693) |
| Arranged by Wolfgang G. Haas | |
| Eric Beale, Baroque Trumpet | |
| Leigh Harrold, piano | |
| Hannah Heathcote - Baroque Trumpet | |
| Vejvanovsky was born in Moravia (Hukvaldy or Hlučín) in either 1633 or 1639. He received an education at the Jesuit university in Opava, where he also began composing. As a composer his output is uneven, but in his later works he was able to master most typical idioms of the day. He seems to have struggled with imitative counterpoint and his most compelling pieces are characterised by charming folk idioms and virtuosic brass writing. He composed in a wide variety of genres ranging from large-scale Mass settings and music for special feast days to more intimate sonatas and suites. | |
| The Petite Suite, L. 65 | Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918) |
| Ballet: Allegro giusto | |
| Jungwoo Kim, Piano | |
| Jungwoo Kim & Congying Li | |
| This suite was composed for four hands on a piano by Debussy in the late 19th century. The fourth movement, Ballet: Allegro giusto, is in D Major and it contains a few time signature and key changes. | |
| Clarinet Sonata No.2,Op.120 | Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897) |
| Movement I | |
| Chang Dae Yoo, Clarinet | |
| Leigh Harrold, piano | |
| The Clarinet Sonata, Op. 120 No. 2 is a work written for clarinet and piano by the Romantic composer Johannes Brahms, who dedicated the sonata to a virtuoso clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld. Brahms officially retire from composing by 1890, but the beautiful tone of the clarinet expressed by the solo clarinetist Mühlfeld inspired him again to compose the masterpiece in the clarinet repertoire in 1894. | |
| Solo Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, op. 27, \\ | Eugène Ysaÿe (1858 - 1931) |
| Willard, Violin | |
| This solo sonata is an incredible musical landscape- it starts off bleak, like the beginning of creation, with long lines, and foreboding chords, tension created and released like a pulse. Then comes the second part, the Allegro in tempo guisto e con bravura- quick, in strict tempo, with bravura. A hero rises, with a tinge of melancholy and love within the slow thirds, before moving to the bleakness of whistling winds. Then he plunges into double-stopped swells and pulls, ominous and hellish, leading into a great outburst. A dreamlike grace settles before the restatement of the hero, and the piece ends with a final clash against the darkness | |
| Song for Cornet | Richard Lane (1933 - 2004) |
| Adrian Meyer, Trumpet | |
| Leigh Harrold, piano | |
| The work is in a romantic style, exploring the lyrical quality of the solo instrument. The melodic material is laced with lush sonorities which, in their ebb and flow create an arc. After a brief cadenza, the piece recaptures the thematic material from the beginning of the piece and fades into silence. Notes taken from www.editions-bim.com. | |
| Concerto in One Movement | Alexey Lebadev (1924 - 1993) |
| Andante Cantabile | |
| Kiran Samuel, Bass Trombone | |
| Leigh Harrold, piano | |
| From Randall Hawes’s Melodrama: Alexey Konstantinovich Lebedev joined the army after his graduation in 1942. He was wounded, hospitalized and returned home to play tuba in a Moscow military band where studied tuba and composition at the Ippolotov-Ivanov Musical College and Moscow State Conservatory... He wrote two concertos for tuba: Concerto in One Movement (1947) and Concerto No. 2 (1986) as well as the Concert Allegro (1949). This work is required on bass trombone auditions all over the world given it's technical and musical demands. It is very common for bass trombonists and tubists to share repertoire due to the lack available music. | |
| Flute concerto in D major, Op. 283 | Carl Reinecke (1824 - 1910) |
| Movement 1- Allegro molto moderato | |
| Gabriella, Flute | |
| Carl Reinecke (1824-1910), holds a place in German history as a renowned musician and composer. He taught at the Leipzig Conservatory, which in its time was Germany's leading musical institution. The Flute concerto in D major was written in 1908, and is known today as an adored and cherished piece in the standard flute repertoire. | |
| Piano Sonata No. 16 in A minor, D. 845 | Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828) |
| I. Moderato II. Andante poco mosso III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace - Trio: Un poco più lento IV. Rondo: Allegro vivace | |
| Hannah Shin, Piano | |
| This sonata is one of only three to be published during Schubert's lifetime. The first movement is a lyrical Moderato in A minor, followed by a set of variations in the relative C major, exploring various keys and characters. The third movement is a Scherzo, which for the most part is in five-bar phrases - an irregularity that is counterbalanced by a gentle Trio. The fourth movements flows constantly with quaver movement. It accelerates towards a headlong conclusion, before two emphatic chords bring the movement to a dramatic close. | |