Conservatorium of Music
Thursday Concert Class
Thursday Concert Class
| Piano Concerto No. 3 | Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943) |
| 2nd AND 3rd mvt | |
| Brian Luo, Piano | |
| Konrad Olszewski, piano | |
| 2nd AND 3rd mvt | |
| The Hollow Men | Vincent Persichetti (1915 - 1987) |
| James O\'Hehir, Trumpet | |
| Konrad Olszewski, piano | |
| The Hollow Men was inspired and based on the poem of the same name written by American poet T.S. Elliot and published in 1925. The poem describes a post-war world populated by empty, defeated people lacking spiritual fulfilment and leading futile lives. Persichetti’s composition depicts the emptiness of those returning from the horrors of war through a lack of tonal centre in the music, the wide-open intervals and the diverse use of dynamics. This creates a sense of despair, sorrow and desolation as evident in the poem. | |
| Etudes–Tableaux Op. 33, No. 3 in C Minor | Rachmaninoff, Sergei (1873 - 1943) |
| Samuel Hill, Piano | |
| One of a set of 8 \\\"picture–studies.\\\" | |
| Etude in C Minor op. 2 no. 4 | Prokofiev, Sergei (1891 - 1953) |
| Samuel Hill, Piano | |
| A very different, much fierier, take on C Minor compared to the Rach. | |