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Niel du Preez in Recital
2nd August 2018 | 7:15 pm
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NIEL DU PREEZ | |
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Programme
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Sonata in B flat Major D960
Molto moderato
Andante sostenuto
Scherzo. Allegro vivace con delicatezza – Trio
Allegro ma non troppo – Presto
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) and Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Six Préludes
Op. 11 No. 1 – Vivace
La serenade interrompue
Op. 11 No. 10 – Andante
Ce qu’a vu le vent d’Ouest
Op. 11 No. 6 – Allegro
La cathedral engloutie
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) / Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Prelude and Fugue for Organ in a minor BWV 543
Duration
This concert will last approximately 60 minutes, with no interval.
Niel du Preez opens his recital with Schubert’s gigantic final Sonata in B flat Major D960, which shares a common dramatic arc with the first and the second of his last three piano sonatas. In all of these, Schubert makes a considerable or sometimes identical use of cyclic motifs and tonal relationships to weave musical narratives throughout the works. Scriabin’s 24 Préludes represent impressions of the various places at which the composer performed whilst on his frequent concert tours. Three of his Préludes are grouped with three Debussy’s Préludes with the first demonstrating Spanish influences, the second one of Debussy’s most virtuosic Préludes and the third filled with colour. Liszt’s transcription of the a minor Organ Prelude and Fugue of Bach is rhapsodic in nature and is played freely and with a variety of tempi. The Toccata-like prelude bears the marks of Bach’s early, north German-influenced style, while the fugue could be considered a later product of Bach’s maturity.