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RECITAL PROGRAMS

Distinctive programs built around imagination, connection, and the enduring piano repertoire.

IMAGINED WORLDS

From Prokofiev's fleeting 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.

SERGEI PROKOFIEV / CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Visions fugitives, Op. 22/Préludes

Visions fugitives Nos. 1 & 2
Brouillards

Vision fugitives No. 10
La Danse de Puck
Visions fugitives No. 17
Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses

ROBERT SCHUMANN
Kreisleriana, Op. 16

Äußerst bewegt 
Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch
Sehr aufgeregt 
Sehr langsam 
Sehr lebhaft
Sehr langsam 
Sehr rasch
Schnell und spielend

MAURICE RAVEL
Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55

Ondine
Le gibet
Scarbo

HORIZONS

Horizons traces an expanding musical landscape, from Mendelssohn’s restless Romantic imagination and Takemitsu’s suspended worlds of color to Beethoven’s monumental Hammerklavier Sonata.

FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Fantasy in F-sharp minor, Op. 28

TORU TAKEMITSU
Rain Tree Sketch I
Rain Tree Sketch II, "In memoriam Olivier Messiaen"

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier"


Allegro
Scherzo: Assai vivace
Adagio sostenuto
Largo - Allegro risoluto

 

FELIX MENDELSSOHN / SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream

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