Piano Recital with Drosostalida Moraiti

Mon Oct 03, 2011

20:30

Location

Cultural Centre of the University of Cyprus
Manor House on Axiotheas Steet
Old Nicosia
Nicosia, Nicosia

Description

Young pianist and musicologist Drosostalida Moraiti who has on her record several piano recitals and chamber music concerts in the Czech Republic, Greece and the United Kingdom, as well as a major research study on the recently discovered Piano Preludes by Alfred
Schnittke, is coming for the first time at the Axiothea Mansion to take us on a journey across music periods, which begins with the German Baroque of 1720, passes through russian romanticism of 1916, carries on to russian Avant-garde with its twelve-tone compositions, and ends with contemporary classical music.

Programme:

J. S. BACH: Chaconne 1717-23 (Transcribed by F. Busoni)

S. RACHMANINOV: Etudes- Tableaux 1911, 1917
Op.39 no. 1
Op.33 no. 8
Op.39 no. 5

A. SCHNITTKE: Variations on a Chord 1963

N. KORNDORFF: Yarilo (for prepared piano and tape) 1981