Faculty pianist Cristina Valdés performs music by Henri Dutilleux, Alexander Scriabin, Huck Hodge, Ruth Crawford-Seeger, and Gabriela Ortiz in this program of preludes and etudes. She is joined by Cuong Vu, trumpet, for the premiere of her work Sketches of an Anniversary Prelude, for trumpet and piano.
Program
Trois Préludes pour piano - Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013)
I. D'ombre et de silence
II. Sur un même accord
III. Le jeu des contraires
Four Preludes, Op. 33 - Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Prelude No. 1 in E Major
Prelude No. 2 in F-Sharp Major: Vagamente
Prelude No. 3 in C Major
Prelude No. 4 in A-Flat Major: Ardito, bellicose
Transfigured Etudes - Huck Hodge (b. 1977)
I. Distant, like a gathering storm
II. Interlude I (echoes…)
III. après l'Ange du foyer
IV. Interlude II (…phantoms)
V. Omen, unscroll a canon war!
-Intermission-
Piano Preludes - Ruth Crawford-Seeger (1901-1953)
No. 1 - Andante Tranquillo
No. 5 - Lento
No. 6 - Andante Mystico
Estudios entre Preludios - Gabriela Ortiz (b. 1964)
Preludio No. 1
Preludio No. 2
Preludio No. 3, Homenaje a Jesusa Palancares
Estudio No. 4
Sketches of an Anniversary Prelude - Cristina Valdes (b. 1972)
Cuong Vu, trumpet