Recent Recital Programs

Program I

Works of Russian Composers

  • Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42 - Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • Suite from the Partita in E Major for Violin - J.S. Bach, Rachmaninoff
    • Preludio
    • Gavotte
    • Gigue
  • Lilacs, Op. 21, No. 5 - Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • Daisies, Op. 38, No. 3 - Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • Humoresque, Op. 10, No. 5 - Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • Dumka, Op. 59 (Concert Piece) - Peter Tchaikovsky
  • The Lark Michael - Glinka, arr. Mily Balakirev
  • Islamey (Oriental Fantasy) - Mily Balakirev

Program II

Piano Fantasies

  • Fantasy in F# Minor, Op.28 - Felix Mendelssohn
  • Memento Mori ("Remember that you are mortal") (2001) - Lera Auerbach (b. 1973)
  • Fantasie in F Minor, Op.49 - Frederic Chopin
  • Fantasia in C Major, Op.17 - Robert Schumann

Program III

Mixed Styles

  • Chaconne Bach – Busoni
  • Sonata #10, in f# - Muzio Clementi
  • Andante Spianato and Polonaise Brilliante, Op.22 - Frederic Chopin
  • L’isle Joyeuse - Claude Debussy
  • Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel, op. 24 - Johannes Brahms

Program IV

Mixed Styles

  • Prelude and Fugue in A minor, Wtk II - J.S. Bach
  • Improvization and Fugue (1965) - Alfred Schnittke
  • Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue - Cesar Franck
  • Sonata #8, Op.84 - Sergey Prokofiev

Program V

Années de Pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage) Franz Liszt
Première anneé: Suisse (First Year: Switerland)

  • Chapelle de Guillaume Tell (William Tell’s Chapel)
  • Au lac de Wallenstadt (At the Lake of Walenstadt [the Walensee])
  • Pastorale
  • Au bord d’une source (Beside a Spring)
  • Orage (Storm)
  • Vallée d’Obermann (Obermann’s Valley)
  • Églogue (Eclogue)
  • Le mal du pays (Homesickness)
  • Les cloches de Genève: Nocturne (The Bells of Geneva: Nocturne)
  • Venezia e Napoli (Venice and Naples) [Supplement to the Second Year]
  • Gondoliera (Gondolier’s Song)
  • Canzone Tarantella

Program VI

Années de Pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage) Franz Liszt
Deuxième anneé: Italie (Second Year: Italy)

  • Sposalizio (Marriage [of the Virgin: a painting by Raphael])
  • Il pensieroso (The Thinker [a statue by Michelangelo])
  • Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa (Salvator Rosa’s Song)
  • Sonetto 47 del Petrarca (Petrarch’s Sonnet 47)
  • Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (Petrarch’s Sonnet 104)
  • Sonetto 123 del Petrarca (Petrarch’s Sonnet 123)
  • Aprés une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi sonata
  • (After Reading Dante: Fantasia quasi sonata)

Program VII

Années de Pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage) Franz Liszt
Troisiéme anneé: (Third Year)

  • Angélus! Prière aus anges gardiens (Angelus! Prayer to the Guardian Angels)
  • Aux cyprès de la Villa d'Este I: Threnodie (To the Cypresses of the Villa d’Este II: Threnody)
  • Aux cyprés de la Villa d’Este II: Thrénodie (To the Cypresses of the Villa d’Este II: Threnody)
  • Les jeux d’eau à la d’Este (The Fountains of the Villa d’Este)
  • Sunt lacrymae rerum / En mode hongrois (There are Tears for Things / In the Hungarian Mode)
  • March funèbre (Funeral March)
  • Sursum corda (Lift Up Your Hearts)
  • 2 Polonaises
  • Polonaise Melancolique
  • Polonaise in E Major

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