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Faculty Recital — Peter Henderson, piano
Monday, September 30, 2024 • 7:30 p.m. • Maryville University Auditorium • Directions
Musical Program
Gabriel Fauré: Works for Solo Piano
- Romance sans paroles in A-flat major, op. 17 no. 3 (ca. 1863) (ca. 3 minutes)
- Nocturne No. 2 in B major, op. 33 no. 2 (ca. 1881) (ca. 6 minutes)
- Valse-caprice No. 1 in A major, op. 30 (1882) (ca. 7 minutes)
- Impromptu No. 2 in F minor, op. 31 (1883) (ca. 4 minutes)
- Impromptu No. 3 in A-flat major, op. 34 (1883) (ca. 5 minutes)
- Nocturne No. 6 in D-flat major, op. 63 (1894) (ca. 9 minutes)
- Deux pièces, op. 104 (1913)
- Nocturne No. 11 in F-sharp minor (ca. 5 minutes)
- Barcarolle No. 10 in A minor (ca. 4 minutes)
- Nocturne No. 13 in B minor, op. 119 (1921) (ca. 7 minutes)
Brief Program Note
To observe the centenary of Gabriel Fauré’s death, Peter Henderson will perform a Maryville University Faculty Recital exploring works spanning the great French composer’s career. Renowned for his harmonic explorations and freedom, Fauré was also an inspired melodist, spinning long, flowing phrases set in a florid texture. His elegant, gorgeous piano music is poised between vigor and languor, raw emotion and restraint. This program features some of his most famous and extroverted early piano works, including the witty Valse-caprice No. 1 and two scintillating Impromptus, and ends with a few of Fauré’s sorrowful yet consolatory late pieces, including his intensely moving Nocturne No. 13.
Music at Maryville Series 2024-2025, Concert 2 of 4 — Musicians of the SLSO perform Gabriel Fauré’s Two Piano Quintets & Leo Marcus’s Three Schumann Stars
Sunday, October 20, 2024 • 3:00 p.m. • Maryville University Auditorium • Directions
Artists
- Alison Harney, violin
- Nathan Lowry, violin
- Jonathan Chu, viola
- Melissa Brooks, cello
- Peter Henderson, piano
Musical Program
- Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor, op. 89 (1887-94, 1903-05) (ca. 30 minutes)
- Robert Schumann (1810-1856): [Untitled piece] No. 30 from Album for the Young, op. 68 (ca. 4 minutes)
- Leo Marcus (b. 1945): Three Schumann Stars (Piano Quintet No. 3) (Midwest Premiere) (ca. 14 minutes)
- Intermission (ca. 10 minutes)
- Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924): Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor, op. 115 (1919-21) (ca. 32 minutes)
Brief Program Note
Fauré completed two quintets for piano and string quartet. A slow, painstaking composer, Fauré labored eighteen years on Piano Quintet No. 1, which was eventually premiered in 1906. One of his favorite works, its first two movements have an enchanting, ethereal, timeless quality. Fauré’s earthier Piano Quintet No. 2 was composed relatively quickly, across several months in 1920-21. Deemed a masterpiece since its premiere, the second quintet demonstrates “A deep and magnificent serenity of a great poet, wise and lyrical” (Louis Vuillemin). Between these two monumental late works of Fauré, we’ll present the Midwest premiere of Three Schumann Stars by Leo Marcus, an American composer and pianist, who here explores the ambiguity and sensitive beauty of a small piano piece from Robert Schumann’s Album for the Young, op. 68.