Sonata in A major D959 Schubert’s penultimate piano sonata was one of three written in the summer of 1828, just months before his death. This is a pianistically challenging work of unusually wide emotional range. Its moods run the gamut … Continue reading
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Sechelt’s new banners Posted by: The Local Weekly December 4, 2019 in Arts & Entertainment, Local Community Leave a comment The new banners hung in Sechelt are the work of local designer Lydia Avsec. The jury decided the design is “uniquely Sechelt”. Photos submitted Dozens of new street banne...In this week's e-news: Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Isata Kanneh-Mason are coming to the Orpheum Theatre this Sunday. Plus, newly released program information from Yuja Wang for her VRS performance in February: bit.ly/2YgaE9u
Young cello star Sheku Kanneh-Mason gets ready to show his range with the Vancouver Recital Society
Young cello star Sheku Kanneh-Mason gets ready to show his range with the Vancouver Recital Society
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Music, he reasons, is “maybe one thing that can unite lots of people. It’s a language that can be understood and can be spoken by anyone."Program Notes: Schubertiade Perfomance Two
Posted onFantasie in F minor for piano four hands D940 Schubert’s Fantasie in F minor for piano duet, composed in 1828, is similar in structure to the composer’s ‘Wanderer’ Fantasy of 1822. Both are laid out in one continuous movement of … Continue reading
Program Notes: Schubertiade Performance One
Posted onSonata in C minor D958 Of the three last sonatas Schubert wrote just before his death in 1828, it is the Sonata in C minor that most reveals him as Beethovenian, not just in his choice of key, synonymous with … Continue reading
Program Notes: Mark Padmore & Paul Lewis
Posted onThe age of the German lied, an art-song for solo voice with piano accompaniment, extends from the first songs of Schubert (1814) to the last songs of Hugo Wolf (1897). Its emergence in the early part of the 19th century … Continue reading
Program Notes: Brown-Urioste-Canellakis Trio
Posted onFranz Joseph Haydn Piano Trio in F sharp minor, Hob. XV/26 Haydn’s piano trios are really just accompanied piano sonatas, with the cello doubling the bass line and the violin the melody on top. Such a stylistically regressive texture, so … Continue reading
Program Notes: Richard Goode
Posted onBach: Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C major, BWV 870 Among the chores assigned to the prelude in the time of Bach were those of catching the listener’s attention, establishing the tonality of the following (presumably more important) piece, … Continue reading
Program Notes: Tetzlaff Trio
Posted onRobert Schumann Piano Trio No. 2 in F major, Op. 80 Robert Schumann began composing in the 1830s, a time when the formation of a canon of great musical works was just beginning, thanks to new publications of older music … Continue reading
Program Notes: Igor Levit
Posted onJohann Sebastian Bach Partita No. 4 in D major, BWV 828 The Baroque suite was the iPod shuffle of its time. It was a colourful bowl of musical Smarties with a cosmopolitan flavour, offering a collection of dances from all the major … Continue reading
Program Notes: Sir András Schiff (Tuesday, February 9)
Posted onFranz Joseph Haydn Sonata No. 62 in E flat major, Hob. XVI:52 Joseph Haydn wrote his last three piano sonatas on his second visit to England (1794-95), keenly aware that the sound of the English piano was very different from … Continue reading
Program Notes: Sir András Schiff (Sunday, February 7)
Posted onWolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sonata in B flat major K. 570 The period of the 1770s and 1780s brought regime change to the world of keyboard music as the harpsichord was gradually edged out by the first generation of fortepianos, capable … Continue reading