Kiron Atom Tellian, Piano
Performers
Kiron Atom Tellian, Piano
Program
SCRIABIN Piano Sonata No. 2
CHOPIN Etude in A-flat Major, Op. 25, No. 1, "Aeolian Harp"
SCRIABIN Etude in D-flat Major, Op. 42, No. 1
SCRIABIN Etude in F-sharp Major, Op. 42, No. 3
SCRIABIN Etude in F-sharp Major, Op. 42, No. 4
CHOPIN Etude in A Minor, Op. 25, No. 4
CHOPIN Etude in G-sharp Minor, Op. 25, No. 6, "Thirds"
SCRIABIN Etude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 42, No. 5
CHOPIN Etude in D-flat Major, Op. 25, No. 8
SCRIABIN Etude in D-flat Major, Op. 8, No. 10
CHOPIN Etude in G-flat Major, Op. 25, No. 9, "Butterfly"
SCRIABIN Etude, Op. 65, No. 1
SCRIABIN Etude, Op. 65, No. 3
SCRIABIN Etude in D-sharp Minor, Op. 8, No. 12
R. SCHUMANN Symphonic Etudes (with posthumous etudes)
Encore:
KIRON ATOM TELLIAN Blue Danube Fantasy (after Johann Strauss Jr.'s An der schönen, blauen Donau)
Event Duration
The printed program will last approximately 100 minutes, including one 20-minute intermission.At a Glance
This evening’s concert begins with a two-movement sonata by Scriabin before turning to a study in etudes from three of the Romantic era’s greatest composers for piano. Scriabin began his career as a Romantic composer-pianist in the Lisztian mold and ended it as a visionary proto-modernist. Nature imagery—particularly that of the sea—plays a prominent role in this early two-movement sonata. Chopin’s combination of bravura technique and poetic feeling defined a new school of Romantic pianism in the mid–19th century. Felix Mendelssohn hailed him as “a second Paganini, doing entirely new things, and all sorts of impossibilities which one never thought could be done.” The same words apply to Scriabin, who followed in Chopin’s footsteps at the end of the century before striking out on a bold new path. Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes mirror the personalities of his fictitious alter egos, the stormy Florestan and the ruminative Eusebius. Although he was engaged to Clara Wieck when the work came to fruition in 1837, it originally memorialized his first love, Ernestine von Fricken.