Conservatorium of Music
Thursday Concert Class
Thursday Concert Class
| Sonata no. 6 | Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953) |
| IV | |
| Anna Gao, Piano | |
| The first of the Three War Sonatas, the sonata was first performed on 8 April 1940, in Moscow by Prokofiev himself. The fourth movement is written in the form of a rondo. | |
| Piano Sonata no. 1 | Carl Vine (1954 - -) |
| I | |
| Anna Gao, Piano | |
| The Piano Sonata No. 1 of Carl Vine was composed in 1990 and dedicated to Australian pianist Michael Kieran Harvey. | |
| Toccata in E Minor | Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) |
| Anna Gao, Piano | |
| The seven toccatas by Bach can be regarded as a conclusion to his early period as a keyboard composer. | |
| Sonata No.2 | Grażyna Bacewicz (1909 - 1969) |
| Third mvt | |
| Katniss Li, Piano | |
| Sonata No. 2 is regarded as one of the most outstanding works in the genre in the twentieth century. The composer combined the neoromantic style of narrative and sonic radicalism in the work. The third movement is a toccata. | |
| 6 Etudes de concert, Op.35 No.2 ‘Automne’ | Cécile Chaminade (1857 - 1944) |
| Katniss Li, Piano | |
| Automne is the most recorded program among Chaminade’s etudes. It has a traditional romantic style of Franz Liszt and Frédéric Chopin. It’s a delicate study of piano, with cantabile theme at the beginning and the end and a ‘full-on Liszt’ manner in the middle section. | |
| Prelude and Fugue in g minor BWV 885 | Bach (1685 - 1750) |
| Yuhao Yan, Piano | |
| The prelude is in French overture style, followed by a virtuosic four voice fugue. | |