Conservatorium of Music
Thursday Concert Class
Thursday Concert Class
| Etude X: pour les sonorotiés opposées | Debussy, Claude (1862 - 1918) |
| Samuel Hill, Piano | |
| Timothy Judd writes: "[Debussy] began working on [the Etudes] on July 23, 1915 at a sea-side chalet in Dieppe in Normandy. Fear of an impending German occupation of Paris had driven him to the countryside. He was beginning to show signs of the cancer that would take his life three years later. The ghosts of past pianists seem to have been looking over Debussy's shoulder." (The Listener's Club, July 2015). The set was dedicated to the memory of Frederic Chopin. | |
| Etude in C Minor, op. 25. no 12, \\\\\\\'Ocean\\\\\\\' | Chopin, Frédéric (1810 - 1849) |
| Samuel Hill, Piano | |
| "It is said — and dates would appear to support tradition — that Chopin composed this study as well as Study no 12 (op. 10), in his anguish at hearing the news that Warsaw had fallen into the hands of the Russians. If the legend can certainly add nothing to the intrinsic beauty of these two compositions, it lends them however a particularly pathetic significance." – Alfred Cortot | |
| A Short Walk in a Rainforest | Richard Charlton (1955 - none) |
| Luca Amodeo, Classical Guitar | |
| One of my VCE performance exam pieces. | |
| Ramble On Love | Grainger/Strauss (1882 - 1961) |
| Brian Luo, Piano | |
| Based on Richard Struass Der Rosenkavalier | |
| Pas De Deux | Pletnev/Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) |
| Brian Luo, Piano | |
| Based on Tchaikovsky Ballet, Nutcracker | |