Archived Event

Liszt and Schubert
Simon Trpčeski piano
Date
Sun 18 Mar 2012, 7.30pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
Availability

Artists

  • Simon Trpčeskipiano

Programme

  • Franz Liszt
    1811-1886
      • 6 Organ Preludes and Fugues (BWV543-548) S462
        :
      • Ia. Prelude in A minor (transcribed by Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543)

Interval

  • Franz Liszt
    1811-1886
      • Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année, Italie S161
        :
      • Sonetto del Petrarca No. 104
      • Années de pèlerinage, troisième année S163
        :
      • Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este
      • Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C sharp minor S244

Overview

Liszt, observed Camille Saint-Saëns, ‘began by incarnating on the piano the panache of Romanticism’. The fiendish difficulty of pieces such as the Hungarian Rhapsodies established Liszt’s reputation. Yet the composer balanced his natural instincts as keyboard showman with a sense of reverence and respect for past masters, especially Johann Sebastian Bach. Simon Trpceski explores the complex creative psychology of Liszt in a programme spanning vast expressive dimensions, from the existential pain of the second of his Petrarch Sonnets to the unbridled heroism of the Hungarian Rhapsody in C sharp minor.

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