Repertoire for top 5 - Today

The following lists the repertoire and the performance schedule for our fine pianists competing today.

Pianists in the  Semi-Finals & Recital Times - Friday 12 September, 2014

 Recital 1   - 12 noon    Daniel Le from Victoria

 Repertoire: 

 J.S.Bach                        Toccata in E minor , BWV 914

                                         (i ) Introduction (ii) Un poco Allegro (iii) Adagio (iv) Fuga:Allegro 

Michael K. Harvey                  Toccata DNA

Gabriel Fauré                Nocturne in A flat major, Op. 33 No.3

Sergei Rachmaninov    Piano Sonata in B flat minor Op. 36 (revised edition)

                                         (i) Allegro agitato (ii) Non allegro (iii) Allegro molto

Recital 2  -12.45pm   David Soo from Victoria

Repertoire:

Franz Liszt                    Vallée d’Obermann (from Années de Pèlerinage 1. Suisse)

Michael Smetanin      Stroke

Frederic Chopin (arr. Franz Liszt)   Mes Joies

Dmitri Shostakovich  Prelude and Fugue in D minor, Op. 87 No 24           

Nicolai Kapustin        Concert Etude, Op. 40                              

Intermission from 1.30 pm – 1.40pm

Recital 3  - 1.45 pm  Alex Raineri from Queensland

Repertoire:

  1. Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903

Alban Berg                Piano Sonata, Op.1

Enrique Granados   The Girl and the Nightingale from Goyescas

Manuel de Falla       Ritual Fire Dance  ( from El Amor Brujo)

Frederic Chopin       Scherzo No. 3 in C sharp minor, Op. 39

Recital 4  - 2.30 pm  Benjamin Austin from Tasmania

Repertoire:

Frederic Chopin       Scherzo inC sharp minor, Op. 39

Johannes Brahms    Four Ballades, Op. 10

                                    (i) Andante (ii) Andante

 (iii) Intermezzo Allegro (iv) Andante con moto

Igor Stravinsky (arr.Guido Agosti)  Firebird Suite                 

Intermission from 3.15 pm – 3.25pm

 Recital 5  - 3.30 pm          John Fisher from Queensland

 Repertoire:

Joseph Haydn          Sonata in B minor, Hob. XVI:32                                

(i) Allegro moderato  (ii) Menuet  (iii)Finale – Presto

 Johannes Brahms    Variations on a Theme of Paganini , Op. 35,  Books I and II

 Frederic Chopin       Etude in C sharp minor, Op. 25, No.7

 Mily Balakirev         Islamey