2nd Grad Recital SFCM

Prokofiev Sonata, Mvt. IV

Prokofiev Sonata, Mvt. III

Prokofiev Sonata, Mvt. II

Prokofiev Sonata, Mvt. I

Live Performance on May 4th, 2014 at the Berkeley Piano Club. With Allegra Chapman, piano.

Prelude A L'apres - Midi D'un Faun

Chant Pastoral is the opening movement of Claude Debussy's Chansons de Bilitis for two flutes, two harps, and celesta. Live Recording from Graduate Recital at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, November 2013. 

"One must sing a pastoral song to invoke Pan, God of the summer wind. I watch my flock, and Selenis watches hers, in the round shade of a shuddering olive-tree.

Selenis is lying on the meadow. She rises and runs, or hunts grasshoppers, picks flowers and grasses, or bathes her face in the brooklet's cooling stream.

I pluck the wool from the bright backs of my sheep to supply my distaff, and I spin. The hours are slow. An eagle sails the sky.

The shadow moves; let us move the basket of flowers and the crock of milk. One must sing a pastoral song to invoke Pan, god of the summer wind."

Chansons de Bilitis, I. Chant Pastoral

Les Comparaisons is the second movement of Claude Debussy's Chansons de Bilitis for two flutes, two harps, and celesta. This is a live recording from my Graduate Recital at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, November 2013.

"Sparrow, bird of Kypris, accompany our first desires with your notes. The new body of young girls blooms with flowers, just as blooms the earth. The night of all our dreams arrives and we whisper it together.

At times we match our different beauties, our long hair, our budding breasts, our quail-plump deltas, couched beneath the springing down.

But yesterday I strove this way against Melantho, my elder. She was proud of her bosom, which sprouted within the month, and, mocking at my flattened tunic, called me Little Child.

No man could possibly have seen us, we showed ourselves nude before the other girls, and, if she won upon one point, I vanquished her by far upon the others. Sparrow, bird of the Kyprian, accompany our first desires with your notes."

Chansons de Bilitis, II. Les Comparaisons

La Partie d'osselets is the fifth movement of Claude Debussy's Chansons de Bilitis for two flutes, two harps, and celesta. This is a live recording from my graduate recital at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, November 2013.

"Since both of us adored him, we engaged to play a game of dice for him. That was a famous party. Many maidens watched most anxiously.

She led off with the Cyclops throw, and I cast the Solon. Then she threw Kallibolos, and I, sensing my defeat, besought the Goddess.

I played, I threw Epiphenon, she the high cast of Kios; I the Antiteukos and she the Trikias; and then I threw the cast of Aphrodite which wins the cherished lover.

The girl grew pale; I clasped her by the neck and whispered in her ear (that no one else might know), "Don't cry, my friend, we'll let him choose between us."

Chansons de Bilitis, V. La Partie d'osselets

Twitter Machine is the third movement of Takashi Yoshimatsu's Digital Bird Suite for flute and piano. The suite is "fictitious music for a fictitious ballet, the hero of which is a mechanical bird named digital bird." Artwork by Paul Klee, "Twittering Machine."

Digital Bird Suite, III. Twitter Machine

This eerily beautiful lullaby is the second movement of Takashi Yoshimatsu's Digital Bird Suite for flute and piano. The suite is "fictitious music for a fictitious ballet, the hero of which is a mechanical bird named digital bird." Artwork by Paul Klee, "Twittering Machine."

with Allegra Chapman, piano.

Digital Bird Suite, II. A Bird in the Twilight

This explosive piece for amplified flute and three percussionists is "To be heard from afar, over a lake, on a moonlit evening in August." This recording is from a live performance with the SFCM Percussion Ensemble, December 2012.

Idyll for the Misbegotten by George Crumb (Images III)

Piccolo solo from Mvt. 1 of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 6. Live Performance with SFCM Orchestra, 2013.

Shostakovich Symphony No. 6, Mvt. I [EXCERPT]

Classical & Contemporary Flutist. Part-time bird. Open to collaboration.

Klassischer und Modern Flötistin. Teilzeit Vögel. Schreiben Sie mir, um zusammenzuarbeiten.

Elizabeth Talbert

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