Conservatorium of Music
Friday Performance Class
Friday Performance Class
| O wär ich schon mit dir vereint | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) |
| Megan, Voice | |
| Andrea Katz, piano | |
| From the opera Fidelio, that centres on a woman, Leonore, who disguises herself as a young man named 'Fidelio' to rescue her husband Florestan who has been secretly imprisoned. The aria “ O wär ich schon mit dir vereintâ€, is performed by the character Marzelline, who has fallen in love with Fidelio. | |
| Lascia ch\'io pianga | Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759) |
| Megan, Voice | |
| Andrea Katz, piano | |
| Lascia ch'io pianga ("Let me weep"), is Almirena‘a aria from the opera “Rinaldoâ€. Alminera sings for her freedom from her abductor Armida (the ally of Jerusalem’s Saracen king, Argante). Argante has kidnapped Almirena as a way to eliminate her fiancé Rinaldo, a crusader knight besieging Jerusalem. | |
| Cello Concerto in A Minor | Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856) |
| 1st movement | |
| Regina Baek, Cello | |
| Andrea Katz, piano | |
| Robert Schumann wrote this cello concerto within a two-week burst of inspiration in October 1850. He had no intended cellist in mind, but stated in a letter that his source of motivation was because “there are so few works for this lovely instrument.†| |
| The Domestic Sublime | Katy Abbott (1971 - ) |
| VI. At the Clothesline | |
| Annalyce Weibenga, Voice | |
| Andrea Katz, piano | |
| The Domestic Sublime is a song cycle set to the poetry of Chris Wallace-Crabbe AM, shining a light on the everyday domestic rituals and their shared meanings to all of us. Originally written for soprano and piano and commissioned in two parts, one by the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and Ars Musica Australis for Dr Rowena Cowley and David Miller and the second by Greta Bradman (soprano) and Leigh Harrold (piano) to be recorded. \\\"At the Clothesline\\\" is the final song of the cycle, narrating the speaker\\\'s thoughts on love, loss and remembrance as they hang clothes on the line.\r\n\r\nThe cycle was recently performed by Linda Barcan an | |
| La Maja Dolorosa | Enrique Granados (1867 - 1916) |
| Daniela Salisbury, Voice | |
| Piano Trio in A minor, Op.50 | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) |
| I. Pezzo elegiaco | |
| Chih-Ting Yang, Violin | |
| Regina Back (cellist), Zhihan Jiang (pianist) | |
| Tchaikovsky\\\'s trio in A minor, Op. 50, is subtitled À la mémoire d’un grand artiste [In memory of a great artist], in reference to Nikolai Rubinstein, his close friend and mentor, who passed on 23 March 1881. This was the only work Tchaikovsky ever wrote for the piano trio. Tchaikovsky feared that he may have arranged music of a symphonic character as a trio, instead of writing directly for the instruments. First movement, Pezzo elegiaco is a darkly brooding and rather conventional romantic first movement with a beautiful opening cello solo with a theme that returns for a final funeral march. | |
| Rachmaninoff Sonata No.2, Op.36 | Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943) |
| I. Allegro agitato | |
| Yizhu Chen, piano | |
| E minor toccata, BWV 914 | J.S.Bach (1685 - 1750) |
| Yizhu Chen, piano | |