Music on Thursdays
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Thursday
25th August 2022
12.30 lunchtime
Eri Yamamoto
piano
Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Six Variations on the Original Theme in F major
Beethoven (1802?)
piano transcription: Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Sechs geistliche Lieder von Gellert Op 48, S467, LW A70 (1840)
Six sacred songs by Gellert
1 Gottes Macht und Forsehung - Allegro con fuoco
God's Might and Providence - Light, fast, with fire
2 Bitten - dolce Requests - sweetly
3 Bußlied - Moderato - Allegro ma non troppo
Song of Penitence - Moderately - Not too fast
4 Vom Tode - Andante, piu sosto ritenuto From Death - Walking pace, then more considered
5 Die Liebe des Nächsten - Allegro ma non troppo Love of one's Neighbour
6 Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur - Avec gravité et exaltation
The Glory of God in Nature - With gravity and exaltation
Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)/Liszt
from Soirées de Vienne, Valses-caprices d'après Franz Schubert
Soirées de Vienne No 6 S427/6b
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-1883)/Liszt
from the final transfiguration scene of the opera Tristan und Isolde
Isoldens Liebestod Isolda's Love-Death L447
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)/Liszt
Danse macabre L555
Concert duration approx: 60 minutes
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Eri Yamamoto
Eri Yamamoto was born in Tokyo and, after achieving her BA and MA with highest honours at the F Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest as a Stipendium Hungaricum scholar, she moved to London in 2017 to further her skills on the Professional Diploma course at the Royal Academy of Music. Recently she received membership of the Liszt Society, and became an official piano accompanist of the RAM.
Eri has won numerous prizes and awards throughout Europe, Asia, and US, including the ‘Citta di Barletta’ (Italy), the International Piano Competition ‘City of Vigo’ (Spain), the Liszt Society International Piano Competition (UK), the George Gershwin International Piano Competition (NY, USA).
She has performed at the Chopin Birthday Festival in Warsaw, the S.H. Ceremony (attended by the Hungarian Prime Minister) in Budapest, the Wiener Saal Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Suntory Hall Blue Rose in Tokyo, with Szolnok Symphonic Orchestra, with Mihail Jara Bacau Philharmonic Orchestra, St. Paul’s Church Bedford, St Giles-in-the-Fields Church London WC2, Westminster Music Library, the Pushkin House London, on FM Tokyo Radio, with the clarinettist Richard Stolzman, and Abbey Road Studio, to name just a few.
She has studied under Nádor György and Orsolya Szabó and has attended masterclasses by Cyprien Katszaris , Pavel Gililov, the International Mozarteum Summer Academy and the Lake Como International Piano Academy.
She currently receives coaching from Julian Jacobson.
www.yamamotoeri.com
“...The prime moment came during the second movement (F. Chopin Piano Concerto No.1), Yamamoto is excellent in producing tones with lyrical melody lines. She has developed and mastered her own modes of expression through her great facility in various piano techniques...”
– Tami Nodaira, “Ongaku no Tomo” magazine, 2018
“...She completely picked the pace by “Home Trained” F. Liszt performing, she invited the audience to the euphoric world by the polished techniques and the bright beautiful tones. Above all, the emotional tension, the scale, and the deep breathing of “Après une lecture du Dante-Fantasia quasi sonata" were the proof of the first-class pianist...”
- Takuo Ikeda, 2021
“...A finely spun Dante Sonata from Eri Yamamoto after a scintillating Rigoletto paraphrase...”
- Christopher Axworthy, 2021
Eri has won numerous prizes and awards throughout Europe, Asia, and US, including the ‘Citta di Barletta’ (Italy), the International Piano Competition ‘City of Vigo’ (Spain), the Liszt Society International Piano Competition (UK), the George Gershwin International Piano Competition (NY, USA).
She has performed at the Chopin Birthday Festival in Warsaw, the S.H. Ceremony (attended by the Hungarian Prime Minister) in Budapest, the Wiener Saal Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Suntory Hall Blue Rose in Tokyo, with Szolnok Symphonic Orchestra, with Mihail Jara Bacau Philharmonic Orchestra, St. Paul’s Church Bedford, St Giles-in-the-Fields Church London WC2, Westminster Music Library, the Pushkin House London, on FM Tokyo Radio, with the clarinettist Richard Stolzman, and Abbey Road Studio, to name just a few.
She has studied under Nádor György and Orsolya Szabó and has attended masterclasses by Cyprien Katszaris , Pavel Gililov, the International Mozarteum Summer Academy and the Lake Como International Piano Academy.
She currently receives coaching from Julian Jacobson.
www.yamamotoeri.com
“...The prime moment came during the second movement (F. Chopin Piano Concerto No.1), Yamamoto is excellent in producing tones with lyrical melody lines. She has developed and mastered her own modes of expression through her great facility in various piano techniques...”
– Tami Nodaira, “Ongaku no Tomo” magazine, 2018
“...She completely picked the pace by “Home Trained” F. Liszt performing, she invited the audience to the euphoric world by the polished techniques and the bright beautiful tones. Above all, the emotional tension, the scale, and the deep breathing of “Après une lecture du Dante-Fantasia quasi sonata" were the proof of the first-class pianist...”
- Takuo Ikeda, 2021
“...A finely spun Dante Sonata from Eri Yamamoto after a scintillating Rigoletto paraphrase...”
- Christopher Axworthy, 2021
Recordings of the works in today's concert
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Six Variations on the Original Theme in F major [11:20]
In order to fit in a wonderful performance by Glenn Gould, we are including the first work in his concert programme, Beethoven's 4-minute Bagatelle in Eb major. All-in-all you will find this brings our concert to a full 60-minute length. As we had last week's enforced break, we hope you won't mind. Each of this week's recordings is quite exceptional.
Beethoven piano transcription (1840): Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Sechs geistliche Lieder von Gellert Op 48, S467, LW A70 [16:00]
1 Gottes Macht und Forsehung - Allegro con fuoco God's Might and Providence - Light, fast, with fire
2 Bitten - dolce Requests - sweetly
3 Bußlied - Moderato - Allegro ma non troppo Song of Penitence - Moderately - Not too fast
4 Vom Tode - Andante, piu sosto ritenuto From Death - Walking pace, then more considered
5 Die Liebe des Nächsten - Allegro ma non troppo Love of one's Neighbour
6 Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur - Avec gravité et exaltation
The Glory of God in Nature - With gravity and exaltation
Let's pander to the musically trained among our audience and offer this one work with its piano score.
The pianist is Ian Yungwook Yoo:
Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)/Liszt
from Soirées de Vienne, Valses-caprices d'après Franz Schubert [7:07]
Soirées de Vienne No 6 S427/6b
Would you like to hear Vladimir Horowitz play this delightful little piece? OK, here he is in Vienna in 1987:
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-1883)/Liszt
from the final transfiguration scene of the opera Tristan und Isolde
Isoldens Liebestod Isolda's Love-Death L447 [6:41]
We often, one would probably say "mostly" hear piano music on a Steinway - which are not to everyone's taste. Try the tinkly one at St Martin-in-the-Fields if you want a comparison!
Well in this 2016 recording Angela Yurchenko plays on a Bechstein:
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)/Liszt [8:53]
Danse macabre L555
Occasionally one hears a talent that is just amazingly outstanding. Peter S heard the young Uzbek pianist Behzod Abduraimov in St Mary's Church Sunbury. This was in 2009, literally a few days after he had won the London International Piano Competition, at the age of 18. Such Behzod's his mastery of his instrument that one would not have known that this well-sounding piano suffered from an uneven touch and a missing note!
So I am delighted to bring you this recording, which Behzod made in 2012, at the age of 22.
Previous concert (was on August 11th)
Victoria Bernath, viola & Thomas Ang, piano - click here
Next Thursday's concert
Gabriel Bilbao, violin, & Jeffery Macsim, piano, - click here
2022 Summer & Autumn Season
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