Programs

Imagined Worlds

Imagined Worlds explores the imagination as one of music's most powerful creative forces. From Prokofiev's fleeting musical visions and Debussy's shimmering landscapes to Ravel's fantastical Gaspard de la nuit and Schumann's psychologically rich Kreisleriana, dreams, memory, fantasy, and inner experience unfold across generations of composers in a recital that invites audiences to hear familiar masterpieces in fresh conversation.

From Sergei Prokofiev's Visions fugitives, Op. 22 and Claude Debussy's Préludes

Visions fugitives No. 1       

Brouillards                                         

Visions fugitives No. 2           

Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir      

Visions fugitives Nos. 7 and 9

Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses                               ​

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Maurice Ravel
Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55

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Intermission

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Robert Schumann
Kreisleriana, Op. 16

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Approximately 90 minutes​

Horizons

Horizons explores music shaped by vision, imagination, and ambition. From Mendelssohn's poetic Fantasy to Beethoven's monumental Hammerklavier Sonata, the program traces an arc toward one of the piano repertoire's most extraordinary artistic summits.

Felix Mendelssohn
Fantasy in F-sharp minor, Op. 28

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Toru Takemitsu
Rain Tree Sketch I

Rain Tree Sketch II, "In Memoriam Olivier Messiaen"

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Felix Mendelssohn / Sergei Rachmaninoff
Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Intermission

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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier"

Approximately 90 minutes

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