29 March 2019
Among the artist-researchers at the Orpheus Institute there are quite a few (forte)pianists. To celebrate Piano Day we asked them about their favourite piano music, music that is related to their work or pieces they maybe always wanted to perform but never have:
For Bunita Marcus, Morton Feldman
WHEN THE WIND BLOWS for piano, toys and audio (2009) was composed by Juliana Hodkinson for Catherine Laws, who performs it here.
Tom Beghin
Research fellow
Research cluster: Declassifying the Classics
Ever since I started playing historical pianos (which was in my early twenties), I’ve wanted to play Schumann’s F-sharp Minor Sonata Op. 11. On and off I started practicing it, but never quite got to perform it. There’s something irresistible about the key of F-sharp minor… Like Haydn’s Farewell Symphony or Ignaz Moscheles’ “Sonate mélancolique," which I did play a lot. I just know it: it has to become “my” piece one of these years.
Prach Boondiskulchok
Doctoral researcher (docARTES programme)
Research cluster: Declassifying the Classics
Doctoral research project: Composing for the Fortepiano: Idiosyncrasy and Historicity (2017 - ongoing)
Sanae Zanane
Doctoral researcher (docARTES programme)
Research cluster: Declassifying the Classics
Doctoral research project: La flexibilité du temps dans les sonates pour piano de Beethoven (2018 - ongoing)
"Kind im Einschlummern" from R. Schumann's Kinderszenen
Luca Montebugnoli
Doctoral researcher (docARTES programme)
Research cluster: Declassifying the Classics
Doctoral research project: Rewriting for the salon (2018 - ongoing)
Dussek, J. L. Dussek, Elégie harmonique sur la mort de son Altesse Royale le prince Louis Ferdinand de Prusse, op. 61
Chopin, Concerto op. 11
Debussy/Ravel, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, arrangé pour piano à quatre mains par Ravel
Artwork by Hara Katsiki.
