Blog Type: Program Notes

  • PROGRAM NOTES: KHATIA BUNIATISHVILI

    PROGRAM NOTES: KHATIA BUNIATISHVILI

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    Khatia Buniatishvili, piano Chan Centre for the Performing Arts Monday, January 23, 2011 Franz Joseph Haydn, piano sonata no. 33 in C minor, Hob. XVI/20 Although Haydn’s role in the development of the symphony and string quartet is secure in the minds of many people, but they are still apt to forget just how important…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: GEORGE LI

    PROGRAM NOTES: GEORGE LI

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    George Li Program Notes Performance: Vancouver Playhouse, Sunday, December 4, 2011 Carl Czerny Variations on a Theme by Rode, Op. 33 (“La Ricordanza”) Most concertgoers know Carl Czerny only as the early nineteenth-century pedagogue who churned out endless dull exercises that continue to be inflicted upon piano students this day. True, he did compose a…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: SHOSTAKOVICH PRELUDES AND FUGUES

    PROGRAM NOTES: SHOSTAKOVICH PRELUDES AND FUGUES

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    Dmitri Shostakovich: 12 Preludes and Fugues from Op. 87 Like many of the great composers before him (Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Rachmaninoff, among others), Shostakovich possessed the skills of a keyboard virtuoso, and might well have sustained a successful career as such. Among his prizes was one from the First International Chopin…