Conservatorium of Music
Thursday Concert Class
Thursday Concert Class
| Piano Concerto in E-flat Major, No.1 | Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) |
| I. Allegro maestoso | |
| Luke Zhang, piano | |
| TBA, piano | |
| Liszt's first concerto, written over a 26-year period. The concerto premiered in Weimar on February 17, 1855, with Liszt at the piano and Hector Berlioz conducting. | |
| Mazeppa s.139 no.4 | Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) |
| Flinch Kemp, Piano | |
| Liszt's Mazeppa is based upon a poem by Victor Hugo which was published in 1829 as a part of a collection Les Orientales. Hugo's poem is included in Liszt's original manuscript. Hugo's poem introduces Mazeppa as a Ukrainian nobleman who became a page at the court of John Casimir, King of Poland. Due to a love affair with the wife of a Podolian count, Mazeppa was punished and tied naked onto a wild horse that was violently heading toward Ukraine. The horse collapsed in death and Mazeppa was saved by Ukrainian Cossacks who then named him as their leader. | |
| Sonata in F minor Op. 2 No. 1 | Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) |
| 1. Allegro 2. Adagio 3. Allegretto 4. Prestissimo | |
| Charlotte Roberts, Piano | |
| Beethoven’s first Sonata | |
| Shoalhaven Nightpainters | Linda Kouvaras (1960 - ) |
| Charlotte Roberts, Piano | |
| Piano solo | |
| Norwegian Dance Op.35 | Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907) |
| I & II | |
| Jovanna Amaris Koerniawan, Piano | |
| Jovanna Amaris Koerniawan (piano) & Yishun Zhang (piano) | |
| Miroirs | Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937) |
| III. Une barque sur l\'océan IV. Alborada del gracioso | |
| Rachel Shindang, Piano | |
| Piano Sonata No. 9 in D major, K311 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) |
| I. Allegro con spirito | |
| Rachel Shindang, Piano | |
| Piano Sonata no. 2 | Grazyna Bacewicz (1909 - 1969) |
| I. Maestoso. Agitato II. Largo III. Vivo (Toccata) | |
| Samuel Hill, Piano | |
| You wouldn't know Bacewicz was a violinist to look at the score of this work! Her piano writing is idiomatic and engaging, and it's a blast to play. This sonata is particularly interesting in the way it regularly and abruptly changes direction, with vast contrasts in tempo, dymanics, and texture; all while retaining a cohesive overall structure. | |
| Regard de l\'Esprit de Joie (Vignt Regards no. X) | Olivier Messiaen (1908 - 1992) |
| Samuel Hill, Piano | |
| "Vehement dance, drunken horn-like tonalities, transport of the Holy Spirit… the joy of God’s love in the soul of Jesus Christ. — I have always been struck by the fact that God is happy — and that His continual and ineffable joy inhabited the soul of Christ. Joy is, for me, a transport, an intoxication in the maddest sense." (Messiaen, Trans. Vannier) | |