New Generation Piano Recital - Sophia Shuya Liu

As a student of Dang Thai Son in Montreal, the Chinese-Canadian pianist honed her nascent gifts, which opened the doors to the greatest North American concert halls. Her alert, powerful and colourful style is particularly exquisite in a Romantic repertoire, by far her preference. It is therefore no surprise that this recital is built around works by Liszt and Chopin, giving pride of place to brilliant operatic variations (Variations on Don Giovanni by Chopin, Réminiscences de Norma by Liszt) and poetic and contemplative works (Petrarch Sonnet 123 by Liszt, Nocturne, Op. 37, No. 2 by Chopin).

Programme

FRANZ LISZT

• Mephisto Waltz No. 1 S.514
• Années de Pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage) – Deuxième année : Italie (Second Year: Italy) – Petrarch Sonnet 123
• Réminiscences de Norma
  
  

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN

• Nocturne, Op.37, No. 2
• Mazurkas, Op.17
• Variations in B-Flat Minor on the theme La ci darem la mano, Op.2 (from Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni)