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Pianist Wu Han gives an overview of each of the programs:
Friday night: The first program features the lyrical, singing part of the cello, which for a cello recital, you can’t avoid. It is in the range of the human voice, so we want to take the best advantage of that. The Mendelssohn D-Ma- jor Sonata has a recitative part [in the slow movement] that sounds like a prayer or an aria. And then the Grieg Sonata is just pure joy and fantastic melodies, and it paints an incredible picture of the nature from the Norse, so it’s very fitting for playing in Tippet Rise. It’s the sound of the mountains and the hills and the weathers.
Saturday afternoon: We always want to have a sense of discovery in all of our programming, so the Barber Souvenir is six little movements of the hustle and bustle
of the New York scene. It’s lots and lots of fun, a dance piece, very Americana. And then you will hear Rhapsody in
Blue! How can you go wrong with Rhapsody in Blue? It’s very appropriate for an outdoor venue, appropriate for what Tippet Rise represents: the inventiveness of the American spirit!
Saturday night: The program “Unfolding” is very much a historical sound for people who might not know much about music. They can really discover the joys, the development of each period from the Baroque of Bach to the Classical of Beethoven. And then Schubert is a composer that bridged the Classical and the Romantic. On the second half, you will launch into the 20th century. You will hear the cello sound completely different than the first half. In the Britten Sonata is the most inventive cello technique. You will hear
all kinds of weird sounds that you never imagined cello could make. And then in the Debussy Sonata, you will also hear the difference between French and English. It’s a fascinating way of using the cello-piano repertoire to explore the music history and the development of the cello sound.
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