FRIDAY, JAN 10, 2025 7:30 pm
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade, op 35
(in composer’s own arrangement for one piano, four hands)
1. The sea and Sinbad‘s ship
2. The legend of the Kalendar prince
3. The young prince and the young princess
4. Festival at Baghdad
Peiwen Chen and Alexander Paley, piano
intermission
Serge Rachmaninoff
Trio élégiaque, No 2 in D minor, op 9
1. Moderato-Allegro vivace
2. Quasi variazione. Andante
3. Allegro risoluto-Moderato
Daisuke Yamamoto, violin | Neal Cary, cello | Alexander Paley, piano
SATURDAY, JAN 11, 2025, 7:30 pm
Cesar Franck
Sonata for violin and piano in A major
1. Allegretto ben moderato
2. Allegro
3. Recitativo – Fantasia. Ben moderato – molto lento
4. Allegretto poco mosso
Daisuke Yamamoto, violin | Alexander Paley, piano
Dmitry Shostakovich
Sonata for cello and piano, op 40 in D minor
1. Allegro non troppo
2. Allegro
3. Largo
4. Allegro
Neal Cary, cello | Alexander Paley, piano
intermission
Georges Bizet
Jeux d’enfants
1. L’Escarpolette
2. La Toupie
3. La Poupée
4. Les Chevaux de Bois
5. Le Volant
6. Trompette et Tambour
7. Les Bulles de Savon
8. Les Quatre Coins
9. Colin-Maillard
10. Saute-Mouton
11. Petit Mari,Petite Femme!
12. Le Bal
Peiwen Chen and Alexander Paley, piano
SUNDAY, JAN 12, 2025, 3:00 pm
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata for piano and violin, No 8, op 30, no 3 in G major
1. Allegro assai
2. Tempo di Minuetto, ma molto moderato e grazioso
3. Allegro vivace
Daisuke Yamamoto, violin | Peiwen Chen, piano
Franz Schubert
Divertissement a la hongroise D.818
1. Andante
2. Marcia: Andante con moto
3. Allegretto
Peiwen Chen and Alexander Paley, piano
intermission
Franz Liszt
Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude
(from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses)
Alexander Paley, piano