Conservatorium of Music
Friday Performance Class
Friday Performance Class
| Tema Con Variazioni | Jean Francaix (1912 - 1997) |
| Lily Tamir-Regev, Clarinet | |
| Konrad Olszewski, piano | |
| Sixty-five years after Debussy composed his Première Rhapsodie, Jean Françaix was approached with a similar commission from the Paris Conservatoire—to compose a work as a test piece for the clarinet department’s Pièce de Concours. Composed in 1974 for that year’s trials, Francaix dedicated Tema con variazioni to his grandson Olivier. In all his music, Françaix was unashamedly in the business of charming his listeners, though, unlike his friend Poulenc—with whom he is sometimes compared for the cheeky insouciance of much of his music—Françaix rarely expressed any deep emotion or sensibility. | |
| Piano Concerto No.3 | Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953) |
| I:Andante-Allgero | |
| Chutong Yi, Piano | |
| Konrad Olszewski, piano | |
| Sonata No.2 op.64 | Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928 - 2016) |
| Movement I - Molto allegro Movement II - Andante assai Movement III - Allegro brutale | |
| Elizabeth Kefaloukos, Piano | |
| Rautavaara's second piano sonata titled 'Fire Sermon' is a compelling work, centring around complex rhythmic and scalic pattens. Utilising axes of symmetry and a submerged tonal centre, the work is influenced by T.S Eliot's poem 'The Wasteland' which discusses the concept of individual liberation. | |
| Op 10 No 4 Etude | Frederic Chopin (1810 - 1849) |
| Zhihan Jiang, Piano | |
| Torrent | |
| Op110 | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) |
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| Zhihan Jiang, Piano | |
| One of Beethoven's most personal sonatas | |
| Piano Sonata Op.1 | Alban Berg (1885 - 1935) |
| Katniss Li, Piano | |
| Chopin Polonaise in C-sharp minor, Op.26 No.1 | Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849) |
| Thomas Summerfield, Piano | |