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Nico de Villiers in Recital
27th July 2018 | 7:15 pm
£7Event Navigation
PERFORMER | |
NICO DE VILLIERS | |
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Programme
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) / Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Song Transcription “Widmung”
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) / Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Song Transcription “Ständchen”
Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
Goyescas Op.11
Quejas o La maja y el ruiseñor
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Preludes (Book I)
La cathedral engloutie
Preludes (Book II)
La puerta del Vino
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Rhapsody in Blue (arranged for two pianos, four hands)
Duration
This concert will last approximately 60 minutes, with no interval.
In this varied programme Nico de Villiers combines song with cityscapes. Schumann’s Widmung, which opens his song cycle Myrthen, is a song of devotion to his new bride, Clara Schumann. Schubert’s Ständchen is a serenade where a man tries to implore a girl to open her window and acknowledge his song. Granados wrote his piano suite Goyescas in 1911 to illustrate various inspirations of the paintings of Goya. He used the music from this piano suite as a basis for his opera with the same name in 1915. Debussy’s two Préludes are Monet-like paintings of a grand cathedral submerged in an Atlantis landscape, and the intoxicating atmosphere of a wine merchant’s emporium. To finish the programme, Annabelle Lawson joins Nico de Villiers in performing Gershwin’s iconic Rhapsody in Blue, which is a musical interpretation of the character of the Big Apple, New York City.