Conservatorium of Music
Thursday Concert Class
Thursday Concert Class
| Etude Op.10 No.6 in E flat Minor | Frederic Chopin (1810 - 1849) |
| Katniss Li, Piano | |
| Unlike his other virtuosic piano studies, Chopin’s Etude Op.10 No.6 was regarded as a challenging piece in terms of balancing the bass, the middle voice and the melody. One couldn’t stop picturing a doleful image listening to this music. Interestingly, the tempo people play it in is half or even a third of what Chopin originally wrote. | |
| Piano Sonata No.13 in B flat Major | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) |
| First movement | |
| Katniss Li, Piano | |
| The first movement of this sonata gives off a lively character. It is a standard sonata with its exposition in B flat Major; then transition into F Major. The development contains a bit dramatic colour when the music falls on F minor. And it all goes back to the tonic at the end. | |
| Ballade no. 2 | Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) |
| Anna Gao, Piano | |
| Ballade no. 2 was written in 1854, the same year as Liszt's famous Bminor Sonata. It is one movement tone poem. According to Claudio Arrau, the tone poem is based on the Greek myth of Hero and Leander. | |
| Faschingsschwank aus Wien | Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856) |
| I: Allegro II: Romanze III: Scherzo IV: Intermezzo V: Finale | |
| Anna Gao, Piano | |
| Faschingsschwank aus Wien (carnival scenes for on Vienna) is one of the composers most popular piano cycles, consisting of five movements, each of a different character. He began composing the work in Vienna in 1839 | |
| Sonata op. 40 no. 2 | Muzio Clementi (1752 - 1832) |
| Anna Gao, Piano | |
| Clementi was born in Rome, but taken to England at the age of 14. Opus. 40 no. 2, published in 1802, is a two movement Sonata in the key of Bminor. | |
| Etude op. 8 no. 12 | Alexander Scriabin (1872 - 1915) |
| Anna Gao, Piano | |
| Arguably one of the most well known studies, op. 8 no.12 in D#minor was composed in 1894.\r\n | |
| Piano Sonata in B-flat \"Hammerklavier\", Op. 106 | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) |
| Hannah Shin, Piano | |
| One of the great masterworks of the piano repertoire, it is a large-scale work in 4 movements that express the peak of Beethoven's pianism. | |