Portland Piano International: Daria Rabotkina
Saturday, March 25, 2023 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Lincoln Performance Hall (LH 175),
Portland,
OR,
United States
$55 keyboard view, $45 non-keyboard view
Franz Schubert
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Moments Musicaux, D. 780, Op. 94
(selections)
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Moments Musicaux, Op. 16 (selections)
Paul Harvey Aurandt, Jr. — Piano Sonata in B-flat minor
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Moments Musicaux, Op. 16 (selections)
Paul Harvey Aurandt, Jr. — Piano Sonata in B-flat minor
"A pianist full of fire and warmth" (Plain-Dealer), Daria Rabotkina takes to the stage for a program that explores the power and possibility of a musical moment.
Selections from the Moments Musicaux of Schubert and Rachmaninoff juxtapose the Viennese composer's restrained poetic beauty with the Russian's titanic range of sonic possibilities — from whispers of tender melody to the massive clang of cathedral bells. And in a work she's championed in concert halls across the country, Rabotkina brings the afternoon full circle with Paul Harvey Aurandt's Sonata in B-flat minor, in which the composer pays homage to the emotional sweep of both Schubert and Rachmaninoff.