Chapman delivers classics
Drouin pianist Brian Chapman will present a solo recital filled with well-known masterpieces at Wesley of Warragul on Sunday, April 9 at 2.30pm.
Don’t miss this “Classics and Impressions” recital featuring a popular program in the superb acoustic ambience of Wesley.
Brian originally compiled this program to complement the opening of Lucy Chapman’s solo art exhibition at ARC Yinnar in 2010. Two years later, the same program attracted a sell-out audience in Flinders.
More recently, Brian repeated the program at Bairnsdale which led him to offer it again closer to his West Gippsland home.
This recital follows closely upon the success of Brian’s allBeethoven sonata recital presented at Wesley last November, for which he received a tumultuous standing ovation from a near-capacity audience.
While this program contains a generous offering of some wellknown masterpieces, it will also appeal to piano students and teachers. Most of the chosen pieces are found amongst the set works in the Australian Music Examinations Board syllabus.
The opening two “classics” on the program are Mozart’s evergreen “Sonata in C, K.545” and Beethoven’s “Pathétique Sonata, Op.13”, containing a beautiful slow movement made famous through its use as the theme for Karl Haas’s radio program “Adventures in Good Music” from 1970 to 2007.
The transition from the classical to the early romantic genres will be effected by a bracket of “Two Enharmonic Fantasies” comprising Schubert’s celebrated “Impromptu in G flat, Op.90 No.3” and Schumann’s heartfelt “Romanze in F, Op.28 No.2”.
The first half of the program will conclude with one of Chopin’s most effective concert pieces, brilliantly tuneful “Scherzo in B flat minor, Op.31”.
After interval, an opening bracket of “Two Spanish Impressions” will contrast two highly impassioned works. The yearning lamentation of Granados’s “The Maiden and the Nightingale” from his Goyescas suite inspired by the paintings of Goya as well as the fiery dance rhythms of “Albéniz’s El Albaicin” from book three of his Iberia suite inspired by the gipsy quarter of Granada.
The remainder of the program comprises five impressions by Debussy. Beginning with his exquisite “Clair de Lune”, followed by a bracket of three Préludes – the minimalist and emotionally desolate “Footsteps in the Snow”, the ever popular “Girl with the Flaxen Hair” and the blazingly graphic “Engulfed Cathedral” – and concluding with the exciting splashes of “Gardens under Rain”, culminating in a flourish of wind, thunder and lightning.
Tickets can be purchased in advance at www.trybooking.com/ 250753 or at the venue on the day of the concert.
Admission is $30 for adults, $25 for concession and $15 for students.
For further information, email lucy.chapman1@bigpond.com or call 0400 133 157.
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