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Jean Sibelius: Five pieces for piano Op.75 No.5: The Spruce (Kuusi)

Miroirs is a suite for solo piano written by French composer Maurice Ravel between 1904 and 1905. First performed by Ricardo Viñes in 1906, Miroirs contains five movements, each dedicated to a fellow member of the French avant-garde artist group, Les Apaches.

Une barque sur l'océan ("A Boat on the Ocean") is the third movement from the work and is dedicated to Paul Sordes, the piece recounts a boat as it sails upon the waves of the ocean. Arpeggiated sections and sweeping melodies imitate the flow of ocean currents. It is the longest piece of the set, and the second most technically difficult.

Miroirs 3 - Une Barque Sur L'Océan

Water

Debussy: Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: No. 10, La cathédrale engloutie

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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 1 in C Major, BWV 1046

Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major, Op. 28, is a piano sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven. It was named Pastoral or Pastorale by Beethoven's publisher at the time, A. Cranz. While not as widely recognised as its immediate predecessor, Piano Sonata No. 14, it is admired for the intricacy and technicality in the beauty it portrays. It takes roughly 35 minutes to play the entire work as intended with repeats.
Published in 1801, it is dedicated to the Count Joseph von Sonnenfels. This sonata was written at a time when Beethoven's alarm at his worsening deafness was increasing. Nevertheless, Beethoven paints a serene image with this sonata.

Piano Sonata Op.28 No.15 in D Major "Pastoral" by Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Rameau, Ólafsson: The Arts and the Hours

The Arts and the Hours

Performed live on 17 January 2020
Weston Gallery (Steinway B)
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama

Weston Gallery

César Franck, Prélude, Chorale et Fugue

Debussy: Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: No. 10, La cathédrale engloutie

Helene Grimaud

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