Conservatorium of Music
Friday Performance Class
Friday Performance Class
| Sonata op.36 | Gabriel Pierné (1863 - 1937) |
| 2. Allegretto tranquillo | |
| Wil Rigby, Flute | |
| Konrad Olszewski, piano | |
| Etude X: pour les sonorotiés opposées | Debussy, Claude (1862 - 1918) |
| 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 the memory of Frederic Chopin. | |
| Etude in C Minor, op. 25. no 12, \'Ocean\' | Chopin, Frédéric (1810 - 1849) |
| Samuel Hill, Piano | |
| "It is said — and dates would appear to support tradition — that Chopin composed this study as well as Study no 12 (op. 10), in his anguish at hearing the news that Warsaw had fallen into the hands of the Russians. If the legend can certainly add nothing to the intrinsic beauty of these two compositions, it lends them however a particularly pathetic significance." – Alfred Cortot | |
| Isoldens Liebestod, from Tristan und Isolde | Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) |
| Arranged by Franz Liszt | |
| Gulliver Poole, Piano | |
| This piece is Liszt's Transcription of the last aria of Wagner's opera 'Tristan und Isolde', an opera that pushes traditional harmony to its very limits. The aria, sung by Isolde, takes place just after Tristan's death, but instead of capturing only the grief of losing one so dear, instead this piece captures the dichotomous tangle of bliss and tragedy that is - love. | |
| Sonata No.3 B minor Opus 58 | Frederick Chopin (1810 - 1849) |
| 2,3,4 | |
| Zhihan Jiang, Pianoforte | |
| The second movement, a scherzo characterised by quaver runs in the right hand and a chordal middle section. The third, a serene and almost nocturne like slow movement and the finale: dramatic and turbulent. | |