Conservatorium of Music
Friday Performance Class
Friday Performance Class
| Ramble on Love from Der Rosenkavalier | Richard Strauss arr. Percy Grainger (1882 - 1961) |
| Brian, Piano | |
| Grainger was a multi-faceted musician, lionised as a virtuosic pianist, composer, and one of the music’s most prolific arrangers. Ramble on Love from Strauss’s opera Der Rosenkavalier was dedicated to Grainger’s recently deceased mother, and is one of the most meticulously notated works making frequent use of the sostenuto pedal to achieve one of the most unique sound palettes in piano repertoire. | |
| The Firebird - Dance Infernale | Igor Stravinsky Russia arr. Guido Agosti (1901 - 1989) |
| Brian, Piano | |
| Igor Stravinsky was one of the most celebrated composer’s of the 20th century. He established his reputation through three celebrated ballets that were commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev for the legendary Ballet Russes, Rite of Spring, Firebird, and Petrushka were groundbreaking revelations. The Italian pianist, Guido Agosti made a celebrated transcription of the Danse infernale Berceuse, and Finale from the Firebird. The Firebird is one of the most colourful and masterfully orchestrated scores, and Agosti creates an equally masterful transcription of it. | |
| Eight Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, Op.20 | Bela Bartok (1881 - 1945) |
| I - V | |
| Katniss Li, Piano | |
| This composition is the last one on which Bartók put an Opus number because henceforth he would treat his folk music and his more artistic side as equal. However, this work is far from his folk pieces, with its abrasive harmonies and rhythms. | |
| Passacaglia op.48 no.2 | Ernst von Dohnányi (1877 - 1960) |
| Wil Rigby, Flute | |
| Kinderszenen Op.15 | Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856) |
| 1. Von fremden Ländern und Menschen | |
| Nuo Chen, Piano | |
| Kinderszenen, translated to 'Scenes from Childhood' in English, is a set of 13 pieces Schumann wrote in 1838. Initially, Schumann wrote 30 movements for this set but only chose 13 in the end. | |
| Transcendental Etude No.10 | Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) |
| Zhihan Jiang, Piano | |
| One of the more popular transcendental etudes and composed in sonata form, along with a coda reminiscent of the finale in Beethoven's Appassionata sonata. | |