Bruce Liu, Piano
Performers
Bruce Liu, Piano
Program
TCHAIKOVSKY The Seasons
TCHAIKOVSKY "Dance of the Four Swans" from Swan Lake (arr. Wild)
SCRIABIN Piano Sonata No. 4
PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-flat Major, Op. 83
Encores:
CHOPIN Waltz in A Minor, Op. 34, No. 2
CHOPIN Waltz in A Minor, Op. posth.
CHOPIN Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp Minor, Op. 66
RAMEAU "Le cyclopes" from Suite in D Major, RCT 3, from Pieces de clavessin avec une methode
JOPLIN "Maple Leaf Rag""
Event Duration
The printed program will last approximately 100 minutes, including one 20-minute intermission.
At a Glance
TCHAIKOVSKY The Seasons, Op. 37a
Although comparatively little-known and seldom heard in the concert hall, this suite of 12 short character pieces—one for each month of the year—is among Tchaikovsky’s most exquisitely crafted creations. When they were first published serially in a Russian music magazine in 1876, each piece was accompanied by a seasonally evocative snippet of poetry, selected by the magazine’s editor with Tchaikovsky’s approval.
SCRIABIN Piano Sonata No. 4 in F-sharp Major, Op. 30
The Fourth Sonata departs from the Lisztian idiom of Scriabin’s earlier piano works. Its two highly compressed movements take less than half as long to play as the four-movement Third Sonata, anticipating the single-span structures of his later works.
PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-flat Major, Op. 83
Prokofiev completed his powerful B-flat–Major Sonata in the Soviet Union during some of the darkest days of World War II. Alternatively percussive and tender, the music expresses what pianist Sviatoslav Richter called “the anxiously threatening atmosphere of a world that has lost its balance.”