Conservatorium of Music
Thursday Concert Class
Thursday Concert Class
| Piano Concerto C# minor FP 146 | Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963) |
| I Allegretto II Andante con moto | |
| Quilby Nelson, Piano | |
| Konrad Olszewski, piano | |
| Francis Poulenc was a French composer and pianist. Born in Paris in 1899 to a wealthy bourgeois family, who ran a pharmaceutical company. He was introduced to the piano at age 5 by his mother. Despite his talent for music, he was not allowed to enter the Conservatoire. Poulenc was mainly self-taught but received some tuition from Ricardo Viñes. This concerto was composed in 1949, as a commission by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In the first premier in 1950, Poulenc himself was the soloist. | |
| Toccata in E minor, BWV 914 | Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) |
| Katniss Li, Piano | |
| The Toccata in E minor is the shortest of the seven ‘manualiter’ toccatas. It is clearly structured in four parts that flow more or less seamlessly into one another. The piece opens with a simple prelude that goes into an elegant double fugue, followed by a free, improvisatory adagio. It ends with another fuge, brilliant this time. | |
| Forest Stream | Miriam Hyde (1913 - 2005) |
| Katniss Li, Piano | |
| Hyde is a renowned Australian composer and pianist. In her early years, Hyde worked as a concert artist in England. Later she returned to Australia to work as a composer, teacher and examiner. | |
| 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. | |
| Cloches à travers les feuilles | Debussy (1862 - 1918) |
| Yuhao Yan, Piano | |
| Bells through the leaves | |
| Tre Sonetti di Petrarca, S. 270 | Liszt, Franz (1811 - 1886) |
| I. Sonetto No. 47: \"Benedetto sia \'l giorno\" | |
| Samuel Hill, Piano | |
| Liszt revisited renaissance poet Francesco Petrarca's sonnets a number of times, arranging a selection of them for voice, then for solo piano - two versions for each. This particular sonnet is a reflection on the "sweet sufferings" of love; as the speaker looks back on the "blessed" moment when he was "bound" by his beloved's eyes, and the whirlwind of emotions that followed throughout their relationship. | |