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...refreshingly quirky.The only thing missing from Lang’s Symphony Hall program was a performance of a piece by Franz Liszt, a composer and pianist with a flamboyant style who is seen as a forbearer to Lang. Lang’s romantic, rhapsodic, and showy interpretations of Liszt??s compositions are particularly acclaimed. In the 19th century, women reportedly swooned in response to Liszt??s dramatic performances and threw their handkerchiefs onto the stage in passionate admiration. No one fainted at Symphony Hall on Sunday, but Lang’s masterful playing and impeccable style...
...same.Tamar H. Grader ’10 continued with the Prelude in G Minor from Bach’s second Well-Tempered Clavier. The piece was short but well played. Grader set up the next performer, Yoshitaka Yamamoto ’08, very nicely. Yamamoto played Franz Liszt??s Prelude and Fugue on the name “BACH.” Yamamoto displayed agility and attention to detail here, playing blistering lines with ease on the manuals and foot-pedals alike. This was certainly one of the finer moments of the evening.Harry Huff, the assistant organist...
...timing, Bartosik still battled the piano’s unresponsive upper register, which gained some audience sympathy. Prokofiev, the composer of the evening, made his final appearance with “Sonata No. 3,” played by Xi Li ’09, who also showcased Franz Liszt??s “La Campanella.” The charming performance of this bell-like piece, based on a theme by violin-god Niccolo Paganini, further emphasized the piano’s intonation problems. Someone needs to tune that thing before the next concert. Wei-Jen Yuan...
...program they have prepared for Saturday’s concert will feature a program that Sternlight describes as “very challenging solo piano works,” with Chopin’s Premiere Ballade, Liszt??s Mephisto Waltz, and Rachmaninoff’s Prelude Op. 23, No. 5 in G Minor. Most of the performers, in addition to their undergraduate curriculum, study music extra-curricularly with teachers from the Longy School and New England Conservatory. Original student compositions will additionally make up some of the program, including a new piece entitled Sonatina by Derrick L. Wang...
...Joseph Marx. Radiant in a green Gianfranco Ferre gown, Fleming began with a theatrical interpretation of Marx’s “Nocturne,” and concluded the section with a powerful, expressive “Pierrot Dandy.” Thibaduet’s interpretation of Liszt??s “Ballade No. 2 in B Minor,” which came next, showed his suberb control, and raised questions as to whether anyone has had the good sense to record his notes per minute and submit the results to the Guiness Book of World...