Conservatorium of Music
Thursday Concert Class
Thursday Concert Class
| Violin Concerto in D Minor, Opus 47 | Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957) |
| 3 if the program is too long just let me do the first movement | |
| Davis Takagi, Violin | |
| Rhodri Clarke, piano | |
| Written in 1904 | |
| Drei Romanzen Op. 94 | Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856) |
| 1, 2, 3 | |
| Lily, Clarinet | |
| Rhodri Clarke, piano | |
| These three Romances were composed for oboe but are often played on Clarinet. | |
| Nocturne in C sharp minor, Op. Posthumous. | Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849) |
| Jamie Ruta, Piano | |
| Frédéric Chopin dedicated this Nocturne to his older sister Ludwika Chopin. This was published 21 years after Chopin's death. This piece is usually referred to its tempo markings Lento Con gran espressione. | |
| Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor, Op. 30 No.2 | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) |
| I. Allegro con brio III. Scherzo: Allegro | |
| Shanmei Zeng, Violin | |
| Rhodri Clarke, piano | |
| This sonata is one of the grandest in the violinist’s repertory. It is a work of drama, passion, power and almost symphonic scope. The first movement opens with a darkly mysterious, almost menacing subject divided into several epigrammatic components, a subject eminently suitable for development later on. The strongly contrasting second subject in E-flat major, march like yet playful, is introduced by the violin. The scherzo movement truly lives up to its title (“joke”) – witty, playful, full of rhythmic quirks and rough humour. | |
| Iberia book 1 El Puerto | Issac Albéniz (1860 - 1909) |
| Katniss Li, Piano | |
| Die Lorelei | Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) |
| Katniss Li, Piano | |
| Prélude No.6 Des pas sur la neige | Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918) |
| Qihan Sun, Piano | |
| Des pas sur la neige is a musical composition by French composer Claude Debussy. It is the sixth piece in the composer's first book of Préludes, written between late 1909 and early 1910. The title is in French and translates to "Footprints in the Snow". | |
| Estampes No.3 Jardins sous la pluie | Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918) |
| Qihan Sun, Piano | |
| Jardins sous la pluie describes a garden in the Normandy town of Orbec during an extremely violent rainstorm. Throughout the piece, there are sections that evoke the sounds of the wind blowing, a thunderstorm raging, and raindrops dropping. It makes use of two folk melodies, the lullaby Dodo, l'enfant do [fr] and Nous n'irons plus au bois [fr] parce qu'il fait un temps insupportable (We will no longer go to the woods because the weather is unbearable). Chromatic, whole tone, major and minor scales are used in this movement. | |
| Images (Reflets dans l\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'eau) | Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918) |
| Zack Lambie , Piano | |
| Claude Debussy's Reflets dans l'eau ("Reflections in the Water") is the first of three piano pieces from his first volume of Images, which are frequently performed separately. It was written in 1905. As with much of Debussy's work, it is referred to as Impressionistic, meaning that it expresses emotions and senses by making use of non-functional harmony and ambiguous key signatures, its tonality being mainly non-diatonic and usually having a sense of modality. It has similarities to Ravel's earlier piece Jeux d'eau. While in some ways Debussy influenced his younger contemporary, Ravel was arguably the first to adopt impressionism | |
| Prelude Op 32 No 10 in B minor | Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943) |
| Zack Lambie , Piano | |
| Prelude in B minor, Op. 32, No. 10, was written in 1910 along with the other twelve pieces. Rachmaninoff was inspired by Arnold Böcklin's painting "Die Heimkehr" ("The Homecoming" or "The Return"). Rachmaninoff also stated to pianist Benno Moiseiwitsch that this was his personal favourite among his preludes. This is the second work of Rachmaninoff's to be inspired by one of Böcklin's paintings; the other being Isle of the Dead. | |
| Sonata No.23 in F minor Op. 57 | Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) |
| 1st Movement | |
| Yi Xin Wong, Piano | |
| The 'Appassionata' is one of Beethoven's most tempestuous works for the piano. Ludwig van Beethoven composed his storm-tossed 'Appassionata' Sonata No. 23 (1803-04) at a time when his hearing was deteriorating rapidly. | |
| Préludes Book 1, L.117: 10. La Cathédrale Engloutie | Achille-Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918) |
| Anna Le, Piano | |