2025 program

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