Today's concert will present three pieces that “pay homage” to an earlier style or a specific composer. The most straightforward example is Earl Wild’s Hommage à Poulenc. In this piece, Wild arranges and reharmonizes the Sarabande from J. S. Bach’s first Partita for keyboard in the style of Francis Poulenc. This is essentially an exercise in recomposition – how would Poulenc harmonize Bach’s melody?Yevgeny Yontov
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Recorded on 03/22/2017, uploaded on 11/09/2017
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Today's concert will present three pieces that “pay homage” to an earlier style or a specific composer. The most straightforward example is Earl Wild’s Hommage à Poulenc. In this piece, Wild arranges and reharmonizes the Sarabande from J. S. Bach’s first Partita for keyboard in the style of Francis Poulenc. This is essentially an exercise in recomposition – how would Poulenc harmonize Bach’s melody? Yevgeny Yontov
More music by Earl Wild
The Man I Love, from Virtuoso Etudes after Gershwin
I Got Rhythm, from Virtuoso Etudes after Gershwin
Virtuoso Étude No. 4 Embraceable You, from 7 Virtuoso Études
Virtuoso Étude No. 3 Fascinating Rhythm, from 7 Virtuoso Études
Performances by same musician(s)
Sonata in D minor K. 141
Sonata in D minor, K. 32
Piano Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op.82
Étude No. 3 pour les quartes
Sonata No. 3 in b minor, Op. 58
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