Chopin Reverberating Heritage - No. 3

Pianist: Ido Bar-Shai

The first part of the concert will be dedicated to the genre that most represents.Chopin's indebtedness to his national origins, the Mazurka.The second part will be focused on Chopin's involvement with death.

The influence of Chopin will be discerned in works by two other important Eastern-European composers.

Chopin: Selected Mazurkas
Scriabin: Selected Mazurkas
Chopin: Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35 ("Funeral March" Sonata
Janáek: Piano Sonata, "1.X.1905" (written in memory of a worker who was killed during demonstrations in Brno).