Conservatorium of Music
Thursday Concert Class

Concert Program for 2021-05-06

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Sonata in D Minor, K141Domenico Scarlatti (1685 - 1757)911:10
       
Gloria Yu, Piano
This sonata is one of Scarlatti\\\'s most well-known. A toccata for the most part, it features repeated notes which invoke the sound of guitar or mandolin, which is contrasted with another more lyrical, almost operatic subject.
  
  
Prelude and Fugue in C Sharp Minor, BWV 849 (WTC I)J.S Bach (1685 - 1750)
       
Gloria Yu, Piano
The melancholy, beautiful sound of the prelude is followed by a dark and authoritative fugue, making a stylistically contrasting but very pleasant combination. This fugue is one of the more complex ones, featuring five voices and dialogues between multiple subjects.
  
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Etude no. 5, Pour Les Octaves (L 136)Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)711:21
       
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 Frederic Chopin.
  
  
Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 33 No 8 in C# MinorSergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943)
       
Samuel Hill, Piano
Rachmaninoff's Etudes-Tableaux, or "study pictures" famously have no stimuli attached to them, so I too will leave it to the audience to "paint for themselves" what the C# Minor study's sombre tempo, and rich, dark, sonorities suggest.
  
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Etude in Gb major, op 10 no 5Frederic Chopin (1810 - 1849)1511:30
       
Rachel Shindang, Piano
Chopin's Etude in Gb major, also known as 'black keys', is an Etude where the right hand part is entirely confined to only the black keys.
  
  
Miroirs Maurice Ravel (1879 - 1937)
        III. Une barque sur l\'océan IV. Alborada del gracioso
Rachel Shindang, Piano
Composed between 1904-1905, the each movements of this five-movement suite for solo piano were dedicated to the members of the French avant-garde artist group that Ravel was part of, Les Apaches. The third movement, translating to 'Boat on the ocean', imitates the changing ocean currents through use of arpeggiated melodies. The fourth movement, translating to 'The Jester's Aubade', incorporates Spanish musical themes.
  
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Ballade no. 3 op.47F.Chopin (1810 - 1849)1411:47
       
Brian Luo, Piano
Ballade no. 3 in A flat Major
  
  
Transcendental etude no. 4 s.139Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
       
Brian Luo, Piano
Mazeppa
  
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Toccata BWV 914 in E minor J.S.Bach (1685 - 1750)812:03
       
Kathy Wang, Piano
Bach's seven toccatas belong to his earlier works, this is the shortest of them and is clearly structured in four parts that flow more or less seamlessly into one another, as was usual in seventeenth-century keyboard music.
  
  

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Total Time of Entries: 53 minutes