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Niel Du Preez, Samantha Ward & Yuki Negishi: solo & four hands
3rd October 2017 | 7:30 pm
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Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) / Ferrucio Busoni (1866-1924)
Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Preludes (Book 1)
La serenade interrompue
La fille aux cheveux de lin
Ce qu’a vu le vent d’Ouest
La cathedral engloutie
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Ballade No. 2 in b minor S. 171
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Sonata for four hands in D Major Op. 6
Allegro molto
Rondo. Moderato
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Ma mère l’Oye
Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant.
Petit Poucet
Laideronnette, impératrice des pagodes
Les entretiens de la belle et de la bête
Le jardin féerique
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Petite Suite
En bateau
Cortège
Menuet
Ballet
Duration
This concert will last approximately 60 minutes, with no interval.
South African pianist Niel du Preez presents a program filled with sensitivity, emotion and virtuosity. The recital opens with Ferrucio Busoni’s transcription of the famous choral prelude of Johann Sebastian Bach, followed by a selection of Debussy’s Preludes; workings of a master of colour and expression, light and darkness, harmony and melody, texture and rhythm. A picture of a successful virtuoso and composer who strove after formal clarity emerges in the final piece – Liszt’s B minor Ballade written between 1845-1853 during a time of personal turmoil. It is not known whether Beethoven’s two-movement Sonata for piano duet was performed in public in Beethoven’s time and is thought to have been a teaching piece. The extraordinary sonorities, orchestral colours and true poise of Ravel’s ‘La Mère l’Oye’ and Debussy’s charming ‘Petite Suite’ bring the evening to a close. Both works were successfully orchestrated, the first one by Ravel himself and the latter by Debussy’s colleague Henri Busser.
FREE ENTRY for the festival’s participants.