Ching-Yun’s Four Classical Seasons

Ching-Yun’s Four Classical Seasons
Declared a “first-class talent” and praised for her “poetic use of color and confidently expressive phrasing” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), the distinguished Taiwanese-American pianist CHING-YUN HU is recognized and acclaimed worldwide for her dazzling technique, deeply probing musicality, and directly communicative performance style. Throughout the Four Seasons of 2020, Ching-Yun will be performing four distinctive recital programs, celebrating four themes of life. Ching-Yun’s Four Classical Seasons is an exciting and ambitious undertaking!
Spring: Impressions
(major piano works from Impressionism)
M.Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit
1.Ondine
2.Le Gibet
3.Scarbo
Charles-Valentin Alkan:Le Festin d’Ésope, from 12 Etudes in Minor Keys, Op. 39, No. 12
I. Albéniz:Iberia (1906)
Book I (1906)
1.Evocacion
2.El puerto
3.El Corpus en Sevilla
Book II (1906)
4.Rondena
5.Almeria
6.Triana
Summer: Hope
(All Liszt Program)
Franz Liszt:Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este from Années de Pélerinage III, S.163/4
Franz Liszt: Six Lieder Transcriptions
Ständchen (Franz Schubert)
Serenade (Franz Schubert)
Widmung (Robert Schumann)
Auf dem Wasser zu Singen (Franz Schubert)
Ave Maria (Franz Schubert)
Erlkönig (Franz Schubert)
Franz Liszt : Three Concert Etudes, S. 144
1. Il lamento
2. La leggierezza
3. Un sospiro
Franz Liszt : Spanish Rhapsody, S.254
Autumn: Romance
(All Chopin Program)
Frédéric Chopin:
Variations in B flat “La ci darem la mano” from Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”
Barcarolle in F-sharp Major, Op.60
Berceuse in D-flat Major, Op.57
Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53, “Eroica”
Nocturne No.20 in c-sharp minor, Op. Posth
Nocturne Op. 55, No. 2 in E-Flat Major
Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58
“If on a WINTER’s night a traveler”
(All Rachmaninoff Program)
Rachmaninoff: Etudes-tableaux, Op.39 (complete)
Rachmaninoff /Zoltán Kocsis: Vocalise, Op. 34 , No. 14
Bach/Rachmaninoff:Prelude, Gavotte and Gigue from Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006
Rachmaninoff:Lilacs, Op. 21, No. 5
Rachmaninoff:Piano Sonata No. 2 in b minor, Op. 36