Graduation Recital: Taek Gi Lee, piano
Pianist Taek Gi Lee begins his recital with the serpentine Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue by J. S. Bach. The performance continues with a sonata by Domenico Scarlatti, one of 555 keyboard sonatas Scarlatti composed in the service of Barbara, Queen of Spain, followed by two evocative pieces from 20th-century France. After Sergey Prokofiev’s dissonant and emotional Piano Sonata No. 7, written during the bitterest years of the Second World War, the recital reaches a thrilling conclusion with a ferocious showstopper by Franz Liszt.
Program (subject to change)
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH | Chromatische Fantasie und Fuge in D minor, BWV 903 |
DOMENICO SCARLATTI | Sonata in D minor, K. 213 |
OLIVIER MESSIAEN | “Ile de feu I,” from Quatre études de rythme |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY | “Les Sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir,” from Preludes: Book 1 |
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN | Barcarolle in F-sharp major, Op. 60 |
SERGEY PROKOFIEV | Sonata No. 7 in B-flat major, Op. 83 |
FRANZ LISZT | Etude No. 8 in C minor (“Wilde Jagd”), from Études d’exécution transcendante |