2022-23 SEASON
March 14, 2023
7:30 p.m.
Concert Hall
Franz Schubert, was declared by Franz Liszt to be “the most poetic musician that ever lived.” In his brief 31 years of life, Schubert composed a vast amount of music, including more than 600 songs for voice and piano. He wrote 11 completed piano sonatas and ten partially finished sonatas. The G Major Sonata was published in 1826. The first movement follows the traditional sonata form. The second movement is a tender, intimate Andante in 3/8 time, which includes some wildly contrasting sections replete with expressive Romantic harmonies. The Menuetto includes a beautiful ländler, (an Austrian folkdance). The Finale is a long and joyous rondo, seeming, ultimately to evaporate into thin air.
Los Requiebros
Enrique Granados (1867 – 1916)
Enrique Granados expressed his admiration for the starkly emotional canvasses and etchings of the artist Francisco Goya in a suite of evocative piano pieces he called Goyescas. The first piece in the set, Los Requiebros (flirtatious compliments), depicts a flirtatious conversation by means of twinkling ornamentation, snappy triplet figures, and scurrying inner voices. In Spanish tradition, such conversations might take place during an equally seductive dance.
Daisies
Lilacs
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 – 1943)
Sergei Rachmaninoff composed two sets of piano transcriptions of some of his own songs with texts by various poets. The text of the song Daisies indicates that a couple of people are quietly taking in a view of a field of daisies. One says to the other “Behold, my friend, the daisies sweet and tender . . .” Lilacs,is the fifth and perhaps best known song from Op. 21. The text, by Ekaterina Beketova, describes a pristine daybreak as the narrator walks along the dewy meadow to the lilacs where among them she will find her one true happiness. In its unassuming manner, Rachmaninoff’s settings eloquently capture the essence of these poems.
Réminiscences de Don Juan
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Franz Liszt was the most technically advanced pianist of his age and continues to be regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time. Liszt lived to the age of 74 and besides a remarkable performance career, he composed an enormous amount of music including many virtuoso transcriptions of music by other composers and from other genres.Réminiscences de Don Juan is an opera fantasy for piano by Franz Liszt on themes from Mozart's opera Don Giovanni. It is extremely technically demanding and considered to be among the most taxing of Liszt's works and in the entire repertoire.
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