PIANO WORKS

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31750, 6 August 1968, Page 12

PIANO WORKS

Concert By Students Three senior piano students at the University of Canterbury School of Music will present a lunch-time recital in the University Hall on Thursday. The students, Suzanne Purnell, Guy Donaldson and Colin Hendry, will play music by Bach, Brahms, Chopin, Ravel and Britten. The opening work will be the Prelude from Bach’s English Suite in G minor. The six English Suites were written in 1725 and are distinguished from the French Suites by their preludes, which supposedly follow the “English pattern” as seen in the suites (called “lessons”) by Purcell. Brahms is represented by the first of two rhapsodies, Op. 79, written in 1879 and dedicated to Elizabeth von Herzogenberg. The rhapsodies look back to early Brahms and were the last piano works he wrote for 12 years. The twentieth century is represented by Ravel and Britten. Oiseaux Triste, the second “movement” of Miroirs, was written by Ravel in 1905; Benjamin Britten’s Nottumo (Night Piece) was written for the Leeds International Piano Competition in 1963.

The programme will end with three pieces by Chopin —Ballade No. 3 in A flat, Op. 47 (written in 1840) and Nocturnes in B flat, Op. 9, No. 1 (for Madame Camille Pleyel in 1830) and in C sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 1 (for Countess d’Apponyi in 1834). The next lunch-time concert will be on September 5. 7