Conservatorium of Music
Friday Performance Class
Friday Performance Class
| Concerto for Clarinet and orchestra, op. 57 | Carl Nielsen (1965 - 1931) |
| 2nd (Poco Andagio, after 11, to Allegro non troppo, 20) | |
| Georgia White, Clarinet | |
| Andrea Katz, piano | |
| Polina\\\\\\\'s aria | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) |
| n/a | |
| Olive Cullen, Voice | |
| Andrea Katz, piano | |
| Polina\\\'s aria from Pique Dame, or the Queen of Spades, is a Tchaikovsky opera set in the reign of Catherine the Great, composed in just 44 days. This aria is sung by Polina, a friend of the leading protagonist, in a salon setting, surrounded by friends. It is a performance within a performance of a ballad of life and death. | |
| Etudes–Tableaux Op. 33, No. 3 in C Minor – Grave | Rachmaninoff, Sergei (1873 - 1943) |
| One of a set of 8 \"picture–studies.\" | |
| Samuel Hill, Piano | |
| Etude in C Minor op. 2 no. 4 | Prokofiev, Sergei (1891 - 1953) |
| Samuel Hill, Piano | |
| A much fierier take on C Minor than the Rach, marked "presto energico." | |
| I have outlived the night | Ceridwen McCooey (1999 - ) |
| N/A | |
| Ceridwen McCooey, cello | |
| Toccata in E minor BWV 914 | Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) |
| Alicia Elsom, Piano | |
| One of J.S.Bach's seven Toccatas and it was written in 1710. A typical four-movement structure piece for Toccata with a brief opening section of an inconspicuous resemblance to Bach’s later organ work. | |
| Preludes | Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 - 1959) |
| Arranged by Ethan McALister | |
| Prelude 1. Andantino expressivo in E minor\\r\\n& \\r\\nPrelude 3. Andante in A minor | |
| Ethan McAlister, Electric Guitar | |
| The first prelude, subtitled \\\"Melodia lÃrica,\\\" opens with a lyrical melody reminiscent of a cello, before shifting to the tonic major in the bright and dance-like B section. The piece, in ternary form, is rounded out by the A section and a simple coda. \r\n\r\nThe third prelude is a hommage to Bach, in a simple AB form, the opening section makes heavy use of harmony idiomatic to the guitar a has an improvisational feel, this moves in a heavily chromatic B section in which the hommage to Bach becomes clear. \r\n\r\nI have arranged both these pieces for the electric guitar with notable use of the plectrum (pick). | |
| Op 10 No 10 | Frederick Chopin (181o - 1849) |
| Zhihan Jiang, Piano | |
| An etude involving a poetic melody played through a huge variety of different articulations | |