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Art of Piano: Style Innovators

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Chopin: His innovations in style, musical form, and harmony, and his association of music with nationalism, were influential throughout and after the late Romantic period.

Goyescas: Los majos enamorados (The Gallants in Love), Op. 11 by Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
Quejas, o La Maja y el ruiseñor (Laments or The Maja and the Nightingale)
Etude Op.25, No. 9 in Gb Major by Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Etude Op.25, No.12 in C Minor

Geisa Dutra, piano

Claire de Lune Minuet by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
The Girl with the Flaxen Hair by Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Pavane for a Dead Princess by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Karin McCullough, piano

Twelve Polonaises     Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784)
   No. 3 in D Major
   No. 2 in C Minor

Nocturne in C Minor Op. 48, No. 1                         Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)Intermezzo                                                             Manuel Ponce (1882-1948)

Lisa Lanza, piano

Sonnetto 104 de Petrarca, S. 158, No. 1 (“I find no peace”) by Franz Liszt (1811-1866)
Grande Waltz Op. 42, in A flat Major by Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)

Maria Khavin, piano

Polonaise Fantasie, Op. 61 by Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)

Nicole Kim, piano

Today’s program was designed to complement the SAM exhibit “Yves Saint Laurent: The Perfection of Style”

Italian songs of love and loss and piano music by Bach, Chopin and Prokofiev

French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816 by J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

“Waldstein” Sonata, First movement by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Prelude, Op. 25, No. 4 by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

Nicole Kim, piano

Italian songs of love and lossItalian proverb

Sento nel core (I feel in my heart) by Stefano Donaudy (1879-1925)

Star vicino (To stay near) by Salvator Rosa (1615-1673)

L’invito (The invitation) by Giaocchino Rossini (1792-1868)

Eterno amore e fè (Eternal love and faithfulness) by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)

Perchè dolce, caro bene stizozosetta sei con me? (Why dear sweet beloved, are you peevish with me?) by Stefano Donaudy (1879-1925)

Perduta ho la pace (I have lost my peace) by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Lu trademiento (The treachery) by Gaetano Donizetti

O del mio amato ben perduto incanto (o lost enchantment of my dearly beloved)  by Stefano Donaudy (1879-1925)

Stornello/Tu dici che non m’ami (Rhyme/You say that you don’t love me) by Giuseppe Verdi

Regina Thomas, soprano & Johanna Mastenbrook, piano

Music by Bellini and Chopin

Works by Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)bellini-capuleti

L’abbandono (Romanza) (The abandonment)
Malinconia, Ninfa gentile (Melancholy gentle nymph)
Vanne, o rosa fortunate (Go, fortunate rose)

“Eccomi . . . O quante volte,” (Here I am… o how many times) from I Capuleti e I Montecchi
Almen, se non poss’io seguir l’amato bene (At least if I am not able to follow my beloved)
Per pietà, bell’idol mio (Have pity, my dearest one)
Ma rendi pur contento (Only make her happy)

Emily Riesser, soprano & Lucy Wenger, piano

Works by Frederick Chopin (1810-1849)

Nocturne in F-sharp major, op.15, no.2
Nocturne in C-sharp minor, op.27, no.1
Nocturne in D-flat major, op.27, no.2
Ballade no.4 in F-minor, op.52

Valentina Rodov, piano

LMC Opera presents scenes from Falstaff by Verdi

LMC Opera presents scenes from Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Falstaff and his page
Portrait of Sir John Falstaff and his page

Act I, Part II – “Fulgida Alice, amor t’offro….Quell’otre! quell tino” (Radiant Alice, I offer my love…That wineskin!  That tub!)

Act II, Part II  – “Gaia comari di Windsor” (Merry Women of Windsor)

Act II, Part II  – “Sarai la Fata Regina delle Fate” “You will be Queen of the Fairies”

Act III – “Dal labbro il canto estasiato” (From my lips an ecstatic song flies)
“Sul fil d’un soffio estasio” (On the breath of an etesian breeze)

Cast of Characters
Alice Ford sung by Meg Daly, soprano
Meg Page sung by Claudia Kester, mezzo-soprano
Nanetta Ford sung by Ya-Li Lee, soprano
Mistress Quickly sung by Victoria Chaussee, mezzo-soprano
Fenton sung by TBA, tenor
Piano by Lucy Wenger
Stage Direction & Commentary by Regina Thomas

Recorder sonatas by Händel and Genzmer, Hadyn’s “Kaiser” string quartet

Joseph Hadyn
Portrait of Franz Joseph Haydn by Thomas Hardy (1791)

Sonate in F-Dur Op. I Nr. 11 by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 – 1759)

  1. Larghetto
  2. Allegro
  3. Siciliana
  4. Allegro

Zweite Sonate by Harald Genzmer (1909 – 2007)

  1. Allegro moderato
  2. Tranquillo
  3. Vivace
  4. Presto

Sabine Endrigkeit, Recorder     Nola Allen, piano

“Kaiser” string quartet, Op. 76, No. 3 by Franz Joseph Hadyn (1732-1809)

Sally Hufbauer & Kathryn Zufall, violins

Barbara Clagett, viola & Frances Walton, cello