Conservatorium of Music
Friday Performance Class
Friday Performance Class
| Caprice Viennois, Op. 2 | Fritz Kreisler (1875 - 1962) |
| Samara , Violin | |
| Konrad Olszewski, piano | |
| This Caprice was written the same year Elgar\\\'s violin Concerto premiered, a piece dedicated to Kreisler. Though perhaps not as well known as his other works for violin, Caprice Viennois still has a lot of the style and flair associated with much of his other compositions and pays homage to his home country. | |
| L 116 Premiere Rhapsody for clarinet | Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918) |
| 1 | |
| Brennan Hamilton-Smith, Clarinet | |
| Debussy was appointed to the board of directors at the Conservartoire de Paris in 1909. His first task there was to compose new works for the following year’s clarinet examinations. The piece was first performed as part of the curriculum in 1910 and was dedicated to the professor of clarinet there, Prosper Mimart | |
| Tre Sonetti di Petrarca, S. 270 | Liszt, Franz (1811 - 1886) |
| 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 on the whirlwind of emotions that followed throughout their relationship. | |
| Variations Op. 20 | Clara Wieck-Schumann (1819 - 1896) |
| Theme, Variations I - VII | |
| Timothy O\'Malley, Piano | |
| Written after a theme by her husband Robert during the decline of his mental health, Clara's variations provide a poignant snapshot of their relationship in 1853. The next year, Robert's admission to the asylum left Clara distraught, many of her friends consoled her with their music. Among them, a young Brahms gave her a set of variations after the same theme, now his Op. 9. While Brahms variations are highly experimental, Clara's obsess over the theme instead using texture to elicit a highly emotive musical language. | |
| Variations on the name \\\\\\ | Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856) |
| Zhihan Jiang, Piano | |
| With a melody based around the name of Schumann's fictitious friend, Meta Abegg, this piece uses her surname as a musical cryptogram that acts as the building blocks of the motif throughout this work. | |
| Gaspard de la Nuit, M.55 | Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937) |
| 1. Ondine | |
| Zhihan Jiang, Piano | |
| Based around a poem about a water spirit, Ondine, Ravel explores the beckoning of the waves and its summoning of the human soul. | |
| Piano sonata no. 52 in E flat major, Hov. 62 | Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809) |
| 1. Allegro | |
| Sanghee Jung , Piano | |
| Haydn wrote his Piano Sonata in Eb, Hob. XVI:52 in 1794. It is the last of Haydn's piano sonatas, and is widely considered his greatest. He dedicated the work to a London based pianist Therese Jansen. | |