Piano Island Festival | 5th edition
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2 - 11 December 2022

PIANO RECITAL

Sounds and Colours
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Erik Satie 

- Gymnopédie No.1

- Gnossienne No.2 & 3

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Gabriel Fauré

- Improvisation 

- Nocturne No.1

- Impromptu No.2 

- Barcarolle No.4 

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Maurice Ravel 

- Une barque sur l’Océan

- Jeux d’eau

- Sonatine
 

Intermission

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Claude Debussy

Preludes Book 1

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LECTURE

• Sounds and Colours in French music (An Interview with French Pianist Pascal Roge)

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PIANO RECITAL

Marrying Art, Culture and Drama
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Franz Liszt

Années de pèlerinage (Première année: Suisse)

1. Chapelle de Guillaume Tell

2. Au lac de Wallenstadt 

3. Pastorlae 

4. Au bord d’une source

5. Orage

6. Vallée d'Obermann

7. Eglogue

8. Le mal du pays (1st version “Album d'un voyageur”)

9. Les cloches de Genève (1st version “Album d'un voyageur”)

 

Intermission

 

Boris Lyatoshynsky

Elegie-Prelude (1920)

Prelude Op. 38, No. 1

 

Fryderyk Chopin

Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35

1. Grave-Doppio movimento

2. Scherzo

3. Marche funèbre: Lento

4. Finale: Presto

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PIANO RECITAL

Portuguese Colors
 

Ludwig van Beethoven

- Variations in F Major, Op. 34
 

Franz Liszt

- Two Legends S. 175

- St. Francis of Asisi Preaching to the Birds and St. Francis of Paola Walking on the Waves
 

Intermission

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Enrique Granados

- Allegro de Concierto, Op. 46
 

Robert Schumann

- Carnaval, Op. 9

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LECTURE

• Lecture Recital on Portuguese music of the XXth century

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PIANO RECITAL

The Matchless Chopin

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Fryderyk Chopin

- 24 Preludes Op.28
 

Intermission

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Fryderyk Chopin

- Sonata No.3 Op.58

1. Allegro Maestoso

2. Scherzo: Molto Vivace

3. Largo

4. Finale: Presto non tanto

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LECTURE

• Life of a pianist and lecturer: Sustaining the profession

• Musicians are marketeers too

PIANO RECITAL

A Fusion of The Great Pianists
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Johann Sebastian BACH (1685 – 1750) / Churen LI (1995)

- Prelude after Bach (2021)
 

Robert SCHUMANN (1810 – 1856) 

Kreisleriana, Op. 16 

- Äusserst bewegt

- Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch

- Sehr aufgeregt

- Sehr langsam

- Sehr lebhaft

- Sehr langsam

- Sehr rasch

- Schnell und spielend
 

Intermission
 

George CRUMB (1929)

- Five Pieces for Piano (1962)

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Maurice RAVEL (1875 – 1937)

Miroirs 

-  Noctuelles

-  Oiseaux tristes

-  Une barque sur l'océan

-  Alborada del gracioso

-  La vallée des cloches

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LECTURE

• Improvising as a practice strategy

• Secrets to Effective Sigh Reading and Practicing

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PIANO RECITAL
​Prokobin Chopin

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Sergei Prokofiev

- Schubert Waltzes (arr. Prokofiev)
 

Sergei Prokofiev

From Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75

- Juliet as a Young Girl

- Mercutio

- Montagues and Capulets

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Sergei Prokofiev 

Piano Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 14

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Intermission
 

Alexander Scriabin 

- Preludes Op.16

- Fantasy in B minor, Op. 28
 

Fryderyk Chopin

- Polonaise-Fantasie Op.61

- Ballade No.1 in G minor Op.23

PIANO RECITAL​

Rachmaninoff Preludes
 

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Sergei Rachmaninoff 

- Prelude in C# minor Op. 3 No. 2  

- 10 Preludes Op. 23
 

Intermission​
 

Sergei Rachmaninoff 

- 10 Preludes Op. 32

​LECTURES

• How to be a modern pianist in the 21st century (Social Media interactive)

• The life of a pianist, a musician, an artist