Conservatorium of Music
Friday Performance Class

Performance Program for 2022-10-21

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TitleComposerMinsStart
O wär ich schon mit dir vereintLudwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)813:15
       
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 vereint”, is performed by the character Marzelline, who has fallen in love with Fidelio.
  
  
Lascia ch\'io piangaGeorg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759)
       
Megan, Voice
Andrea Katz, piano
Lascia ch'io pianga ("Let me weep"), is Almirena‘a aria from the opera “Rinaldo”. 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 MinorRobert Schumann (1810 - 1856)1113:35
        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 SublimeKaty Abbott (1971 - )613:58
        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 DolorosaEnrique Granados (1867 - 1916)714:16
       
Daniela Salisbury, Voice
  
  
Piano Trio in A minor, Op.50Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)1514:35
        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.36Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943)1615:02
        I. Allegro agitato
Yizhu Chen, piano
  
  
E minor toccata, BWV 914J.S.Bach (1685 - 1750)
       
Yizhu Chen, piano
  

End Time: 15:30

Total Time of Entries: 63 minutes