About The Event
Stuart-Liff Collection Library: Thursday, 17th September at 4.00 pm
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3
The second talk of the series by Dr. Cavas Bilimoria this month will focus on Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3.
Composed and premiered in 1909, this piece has gained a reputation of being one of the most challenging piano concertos in the standard classical piano repertoire, known for its herculean technical demands and titanic scale where the soloist plays almost non-stop for the entire 45 minutes. Rachmaninoff himself was the soloist the first time this work was played in 1909 in New York City.
Stuart-Liff Collection Library: Thursday, 1st October at 4.00 pm
Schubert: "Trout" Quintet
In this series of talks on Western Classical Music, Dr. Cavas Bilimoria takes listeners through musical concepts, the lives of composers and their famous works, interspersed with examples from recorded music.
In the summer of 1819, a 23-year-old Franz Schubert went for a walking tour in upper Austria and lodged with Dr. Albert Shellman whose neighbour was Sylvester Paumgartner, a rich mining engineer and an amateur cellist. Paumgartner requested Schubert to compose a quintet for violin, viola, cello, double bass and piano based on 'Die Fiorelle' (The Trout), a song he had composed two years earlier. The result was Schubert's first major masterpiece of chamber music, the appeal of which has grown exponentially since its first performance.
Stuart-Liff Collection Library: Thursday, 8th October at 4.00 pm
Dvorak: American Quartet
The second talk of the series by Dr. Cavas Bilimoria this month will focus on Antonin Dvorak's American Quartet.
In 1892, the 51-year-old Czech composer accepted the Directorship of the National Conservatory of Music of America in New York. A simple man who loved nature and an optimist who had firm faith in God, he was much taken with the folk music of Native Americans and African Americans. The quartet, composed in just three days, is known for its memorable tunefulness, the richness of which lies in its melodic invention and rhythmic pulse.
An NCPA Presentation
Entry free on a first come, first served basis.
