Conservatorium of Music
Thursday Concert Class

Concert Program for 2021-10-14

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Piano Concerto C# minor FP 146Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963)1511:10
        I Allegretto II Andante con moto
Quilby Nelson, Piano
Konrad Olszewski, piano
Francis Poulenc was a French composer and pianist. Born in Paris in 1899 to a wealthy bourgeois family, who ran a pharmaceutical company. He was introduced to the piano at age 5 by his mother. Despite his talent for music, he was not allowed to enter the Conservatoire. Poulenc was mainly self-taught but received some tuition from Ricardo Viñes. This concerto was composed in 1949, as a commission by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In the first premier in 1950, Poulenc himself was the soloist.
  
  
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Toccata in E minor, BWV 914Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)1011:27
       
Katniss Li, Piano
The Toccata in E minor is the shortest of the seven ‘manualiter’ toccatas. It is clearly structured in four parts that flow more or less seamlessly into one another. The piece opens with a simple prelude that goes into an elegant double fugue, followed by a free, improvisatory adagio. It ends with another fuge, brilliant this time.
  
  
Forest Stream Miriam Hyde (1913 - 2005)
       
Katniss Li, Piano
Hyde is a renowned Australian composer and pianist. In her early years, Hyde worked as a concert artist in England. Later she returned to Australia to work as a composer, teacher and examiner.
  
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Prelude and Fugue in g minor BWV 885Bach (1685 - 1750)511:39
       
Yuhao Yan, Piano
The prelude is in French overture style, followed by a virtuosic four voice fugue.
  
  
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Cloches à travers les feuillesDebussy (1862 - 1918)411:46
       
Yuhao Yan, Piano
Bells through the leaves
  
  
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Tre Sonetti di Petrarca, S. 270Liszt, Franz (1811 - 1886)711:52
        I. Sonetto No. 47: \"Benedetto sia \'l giorno\"
Samuel Hill, Piano
Liszt revisited renaissance poet Francesco Petrarca's sonnets a number of times, arranging a selection of them for voice, then for solo piano - two versions for each. This particular sonnet is a reflection on the "sweet sufferings" of love; as the speaker looks back on the "blessed" moment when he was "bound" by his beloved's eyes, and the whirlwind of emotions that followed throughout their relationship.
  
  

End Time: 12:1

Total Time of Entries: 41 minutes