Good morning! The Collaborative Recitals are off and running here at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. Tristan Teo is opening his program with Chopin's Polonaise No. 5 in F-sharp minor, Op. 44. If you weren't awake before, you should be now. :) The contrasting characters in this Polonaise are attention-getting. Tristan is giving us a sensitive as well as powerful performance of the piece and I'm enjoying it.
Beethoven's Sonata for Violinand Piano in D Major, Op. 12/1, movement I: Allegro con brio. Violinist Timothy Klabunde of the MSO is performing with Tristan. Collaborative work requires a different aspect of musicianship than solo work, so including this kind of performing in a competition gives the pianist a chance to display another important aspect of his/her skill set. Collaborating with another musician requires both people to listen to each other, interact with one another, and balance his/her part with the other person. The movement that Teo and Klabunde are performing has many lines being handed back-and-forth in call and response fashion. Their ensemble is very nice.
To close his collaborative program, Tristan will be playing the first movement of Mozart's Concerto No. 21 in C major, Kochel 467 (Allegro maestoso) with Stefanie Jacob, pianist, playing the orchestral part. What a cheerful movement. Great music for the morning. Some interesting comments provided for us by Tristan: This concerto was written four weeks after Mozart completed his darkest concerto, Concerto No. 20 in D minor. There is no cadenza in this concerto, so Tristan wrote his own combining the darkness of the D minor concerto with the happiness of C major concerto by placing the second theme in minor. Additionally, Tristan develops another theme from the concerto as an operatic duet between the two hands, reflecting both his own love of opera as well as Mozart's operatic flair that permeates his compositions. Also included in this movement is a snippet of a theme from Mozart's G minor symphony.
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