Daniel Beliavsky

Concert-Lecture with Daniel Beliavsky, piano

Join us for a concert-lecture by pianist Daniel Beliavsky while he explores and performs well-known works by Chopin, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, and Shostakovich. Through performance and discussion, Dr. Beliavsky will demonstrate how these artists, each inhabiting unique musical, philosophical, and political trajectories from periphery to mainstream, contributed enormously to the pillars of Western modernism.

Program:

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)

Nocturne in E Minor, op. 72, no. 1 (1827)
Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, op. 23 (1835–1836)
Nocturne in B Major, op. 32, no. 1 (1837)
Polonaise in A-flat Major, op. 53, (“Heroic”) (1842)

Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915)

Étude in C-sharp Minor, op. 2, no. 1 (1887)
Étude in D-sharp Minor, op. 8, no. 12 (1894)

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)

Prélude in C-sharp Minor, op. 3, no. 2 (1892)
Prélude in G Minor, op. 23, no. 5 (1901)

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
Prélude and Fugue No. 1 in C Major, op. 87 (1950)
Prélude and Fugue No. 24 in D Minor, op. 87 (1951)