Tag: Javier Perianes

  • PROGRAM NOTES: JAVIER PERIANES
  • PROGRAM NOTES: JAVIER PERIANES

    PROGRAM NOTES: JAVIER PERIANES

    Franz Schubert Piano Sonata in A Major D 664 The salubrious effects of country air on the mind and spirits of the vacationing composer are well known. Witness Schubert’s wonderfully relaxed and lyrical Sonata in A Major D 664 composed in 1819 during a summer sojourn in Steyr, a riverside provincial town set amid the…

  • A DEDICATION TO DIE OVER!

    A DEDICATION TO DIE OVER!

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    When Javier Perianes dedicated his first encore to me (Chopin Nocturne in c sharp minor, Op. 20) at the Vancouver Playhouse I was rendered speechless for at least 20 minutes. What an extraordinarily wonderful thing to have happened. There’s actually a story behind Perianes and that Nocturne.  This goes back about three years.  I had…