Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation presents Etudious! Vassily Primakov in Concert
Friday, May 3rd, 2024 at 7:30pm
Jeanné Wagner Theatre
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center

Bachauer Silver Medalist Vassily Primakov celebrates the Etude, a form elevated from mere technical exercise to concert masterpiece by such composers as Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and Schumann.

In recent years, Vassily Primakov has been hailed as a pianist of world-class importance. Gramophone wrote that “Primakov’s empathy with Chopin’s spirit could hardly be more complete,” and the American Record Guide stated: “Since Gilels, how many pianists have the right touch? In Chopin, no one currently playing sounds as good as this! This is a great Chopin pianist.”

PROGRAM

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS

Etude in D-flat Major, op. 52, no. 6 (en forme de Valse)

ANTON ARENSKY
Etude in G-flat Major, op. 25, no. 3

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF

Etude-tableau in G Minor, op. 33, no. 7
Etude-tableau in E-flat Minor, op, 39, no. 5

ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Etude in C-sharp Minor, op. 42, no. 5
Etude in F-sharp Major, op. 42, no. 4

FELIX BLUMENFELD

Etude de Concert in F-sharp Minor, op. 24
Etude for the Left Hand in A-flat Major, op. 36

FRANZ LISZT
Paganini Etude No. 3 in G-sharp Minor (La campanella)

JEAN SIBELIUS
Etude in A Minor, op. 76, no. 2

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
Etude in A Minor, op. 25, no. 11
Etude in C Minor, op. 10, no. 12
Etude in E Major, op. 10, no. 3

ROBERT SCHUMANN

Symphonic Etudes, op. 13