The January 25th program features two rarely heard transcriptions by Charles Valentin Alkan (1813-1888) of Mozart’s works: the Motet from the incidental music to Thamos, King in Egypt and the Piano Concerto in D minor K. 466, which, along with Beethoven’s C minor Concerto, Op. 37, was a favored item in the repertoire of pianists during the Romantic movement due to its underlying pathos. Alkan’s original cadenzas for the outer movements provide a unique commentary and evidence his peculiar humor. William Wellborn and José López, respective Presidents of American Liszt Society chapters in the Bay Area and South Florida, join hands in Alkan’s four-handed Don Juan Fantaisie Op. 26, which uses the famous aria Finch’ han dal vino from Mozart’s Don Giovanni as a finale. The program proceeds with two works by the Cuban-born, Spanish Romantic composer José Comellas (1842-1888): a Nocturne and his Sonate Brillante. Comellas, European-trained in the Leipzig Conservatory under Ignaz Moscheles, lived several years of his short life in Baltimore, USA as a teacher and appears to have ignored completely the nationalistic tendencies of his Cuban contemporaries in his extant works. The program closes with two works by Liszt from different compositional periods.
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The January 25th program features two rarely heard transcriptions by Charles Valentin Alkan (1813-1888) of Mozart’s works: the Motet from the incidental music to Thamos, King in Egypt and the Piano Concerto in D minor K. 466, which, along with Beethoven’s C minor Concerto, Op. 37, was a favored item in the repertoire of pianists during the Romantic movement due to its underlying pathos. Alkan’s original cadenzas for the outer movements provide a unique commentary and evidence his peculiar humor. William Wellborn and José López, respective Presidents of American Liszt Society chapters in the Bay Area and South Florida, join hands in Alkan’s four-handed Don Juan Fantaisie Op. 26, which uses the famous aria Finch’ han dal vino from Mozart’s Don Giovanni as a finale. The program proceeds with two works by the Cuban-born, Spanish Romantic composer José Comellas (1842-1888): a Nocturne and his Sonate Brillante. Comellas, European-trained in the Leipzig Conservatory under Ignaz Moscheles, lived several years of his short life in Baltimore, USA as a teacher and appears to have ignored completely the nationalistic tendencies of his Cuban contemporaries in his extant works. The program closes with two works by Liszt from different compositional periods.
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