 – The fall schedule of the Parrish Art Museum’s classical music program, “Salon Series” opens with pianist Solomon Eichner on Friday, November 5 at 6:00 pm.…){kind=link}
WATER MILL, NY (PNAN) – The fall schedule of the Parrish Art Museum’s classical music program, “Salon Series” opens with pianist Solomon Eichner on Friday, November 5 at 6:00 pm. He will perform a series of short works by composers from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic periods, including arrangements of music originally written for voice or orchestra and a jazz piece.
Eichner begins the concert with Prelude in B minor composed in 1722 by Johann Sebastian Bach and arranged by Alexander Siloti, followed by an arrangement of a melody from the opera Orfeo by Christoph Gluck, and the ethereal Clair de lune by Claude Debussy. The first half of the program is rounded off with two Nocturnes by Frédéric Chopin, and the evocative Liebestraum No. 3 by Franz Liszt
The second half begins with the lively Robert Schuman song, Liebeslied (Widmung), in a dramatic arrangement by Liszt. Eichner will play the Jazz Prelude in F major by Ukrainian-born composer and pianist Nikolai Kapustin, followed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s popular Dance of the Four Swans from the ballet Swan Lake, arranged by American pianist Earl Wild. The recital ends with Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Lilacs, Vocalise, and two Preludes, Opus 23.
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