Conservatorium of Music
Thursday Concert Class
Thursday Concert Class
| Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 21 in E minor (K. 304/300c) | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) |
| 1. Allegro 2. Tempo di Menuetto | |
| Davis Takagi, Violin | |
| Mozart wrote this when his mother died. The second movement is the most beautiful thing in the world, you will hear quaver motif shared between the piano and violin in a call and response style. Mozart must have been really sad that his mother has passed away. I listen to the Perlman/Barenboim recording and there is a very good mandolin recording by Avi Avital. This might be my last concert class at the Conservatorium, so enjoy. | |
| Cello Concerto in D minor | Édouard Lalo (1823 - 1892) |
| 1st mvt | |
| Regina Baek, Cello | |
| Konrad Olszewski, piano | |
| Édouard Lalo wrote his Cello Concerto in D minor in 1876, in collaboration with the Belgian cellist Adolphe Fischer (1847-1891). The work was premièred the following year at the Cirque d'Hiver with Fischer as soloist. | |
| Gaspard de la nuit | Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937) |
| I. Ondine | |
| Josh Tait, Piano | |
| Ondine is the first movement from Ravel’s composition Gaspard de la nuit, he composed three pieces in this suite and each piece is written on a different poem. The poem Ondine is based on, depicts a water nymph, luring a man into the water to become her husband. When her pleas are rejected, she "burst out laughing and vanished in showers that formed white trickles down my blue windowpanes.†This is the beginning of the poem: “. . . . . . . . I thought I heard A faint harmony that enchants my sleep. And close to me radiates an identical murmur Of songs interrupted by a sad and tender voice.†| |
| Glisten | Katy Abbott (1971 - ) |
| Lorna LIU, piano | |
| The starting point in the writing of this piece comes from a few bars of another work that Abbott was writing at the time: Introduced Species for orchestra. The main motif was taken from one of the motifs found in the second movement of the work, where programmatically, light is glistening on the spray of the ocean's waves. | |
| V. Gryaznov. Overture from Ruslan & Ludmila (8 hands piano) | Mikhail Glinka (1804 - 1857) |
| Charlotte Roberts, Piano | |
| Charlotte Roberts, Aisha Bowker, Iris Su, Chutong Yi | |
| An opera transcribed for 8 hands piano, with themes based on Russian, Finnish, Tartar, and Persian music. | |
| Etude op33 no9 | Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943) |
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| Nicole Cao, Piano | |
| The Études-Tableaux, Op. 33, No. 9 in C# minor | |
| Prelude and Fugue in C#major | Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) |
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| Nicole Cao, Piano | |
| BWV848 | |
| Sonata in C Minor, K. 115 | Domenico Scarlatti (1685 - 1757) |
| Madeleine Groves-Crawford, Piano | |
| One of Scarlatti's 555 sonatas for keyboard. | |
| Etude Op. 10, No. 12, \'Revolutionary\' | Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849) |
| Madeleine Groves-Crawford, Piano | |
| Written in 1831, this etude is supposedly Chopin's reaction to the capture of Warsaw by the Russian army. It is a study in left hand agility, but also presents additional challenges including polyrhythms. | |
| Etude op. 10 no. 12 | Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849) |
| Bobby Yang, Piano | |
| Also known as the "revolutionary etude", is a solo work the last in his first set, Etudes, op. 10, dedicated to his dear friend Franz Liszt. | |
| Prelude and Fugue in D major BWV 850 | Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) |
| Jamie Ruta, Piano | |
| According to Frederick Iliffe, This Prelude shows the expansion of fuller figures compared to the simpler method of Arpeggios from Bach\\\'s BWV 846 and BWV 847. \r\n\r\nThe Fugue has a real answer. This is because the answer, which is on the Dominant is the same as the subject presenting identical intervals. | |
| Etude Tableau Op.39 No.6 | Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943) |
| Iris Su, Piano | |
| Referred to as "Little Red Riding Hood" | |
| Ballade op.6 | Amy Beach (1867 - 1944) |
| Yiyang Zeng, Piano | |
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