Category: 11-12 Season
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PROGRAM NOTES: TINE THING HELSETH
Tine Thing Helseth, trumpet Havard Gimse, piano Next Generation Series at The Vancouver Playhouse Sunday, February 5, 2012 Bohuslav Martinů: Sonatina for Trumpet and Piano Bohuslav Martinů followed in the footsteps of his compatriots Dvořák, Smetana, Janáček and Suk in the incorporation of elements from Bohemian and Moravian folk music into his works. Martinů was…
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PROGRAM NOTES: KHATIA BUNIATISHVILI
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…
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PROGRAM NOTES: GEORGE LI
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…
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PROGRAM NOTES: SHOSTAKOVICH PRELUDES AND FUGUES
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…