Moments musicaux (Live) Antoinette Perry

• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828): 6 Moments musicaux, Op. 94, D. 780 (Excerpts):
• 1 Schubert: 6 Moments musicaux, Op. 94, D. 780 (Excerpts): No. 3 in F Minor, Allegro moderato [Live] 02:28
• 6 Moments musicaux, Op. 94, D. 780 (Excerpts):
• 2 Schubert: 6 Moments musicaux, Op. 94, D. 780 (Excerpts): No. 5 in F Minor, Allegro vivace [Live] 02:37
• 6 Moments musicaux, Op. 94, D. 780 (Excerpts):
• 3 Schubert: 6 Moments musicaux, Op. 94, D. 780 (Excerpts): No. 6 in A-Flat Major, Allegretto [Live] 07:12
• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943): Prelude in G-Sharp Minor, Op. 32 No. 12 (Live):
• 4 Rachmaninoff: Prelude in G-Sharp Minor, Op. 32 No. 12 (Live) 03:01
• 6 Moments musicaux, Op. 16 (Excerpts):
• 5 Rachmaninoff: 6 Moments musicaux, Op. 16 (Excerpts): No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Andantino [Live] 08:52
• 6 Rachmaninoff: 6 Moments musicaux, Op. 16 (Excerpts): No. 4 in E Minor, Presto [Live] 03:42
• Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829 - 1869): Souvenir de Porto Rico, Op. 31, RO 250 "March des gibaros" (Live):
• 7 Gottschalk: Souvenir de Porto Rico, Op. 31, RO 250 "March des gibaros" (Live) 06:54
• Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856): Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6:
• 8 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 1, Lebhaft (Live) 02:01
• 9 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 2, Innig (Live) 01:55
• 10 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 3, Mit Humor (Live) 01:40
• 11 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 4, Ungeduldig (Live) 01:26
• 12 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 5, Einfach (Live) 02:54
• 13 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 6, Sehr rasch (Live) 02:06
• 14 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 7, Nicht schnell (Live) 03:29
• 15 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 8, Frisch (Live) 01:14
• 16 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 9, Lebhaft (Live) 01:53
• 17 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 10, Balladenmäßig. Sehr rasch (Live) 01:37
• 18 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 11, Einfach (Live) 02:30
• 19 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 12, Mit Humor (Live) 00:54
• 20 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 13, Wild und lustig (Live) 02:21
• 21 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 14, Zart und singend (Live) 03:22
• 22 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 15, Frisch (Live) 01:45
• 23 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 16, Mit gutem Humor (Live) 01:16
• 24 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 17, Wie aus der Ferne (Live) 04:48
• 25 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 18, Nicht schnell (Live) 03:28
• George Gershwin (1898 - 1937): I Got Rhythm (Arr. for Solo Piano) [Live]:
• 26 Gershwin: I Got Rhythm (Arr. for Solo Piano) [Live] 02:02
• Total Runtime 01:17:27

Info for Moments musicaux (Live)

"Moments musicaux", a unique program of solo piano repertoire performed by pianist Antoinette Perry. Captured live from USC Thornton’s Alfred Newman Auditorium, these pieces celebrate the works of German, Austrian, Russian, and American composers, intermingling cultures through various compositional styles. When it comes to Perry’s artistic ability, Germaine Vadi of Les Affiches de Grenoble et du Dauphiné put it best: “One felt oneself to be in the presence of a great pianist — an absolute art of nuance, her subtle touch, and finally her perfect musical understanding, which permits her to assimilate the music of all cultures.

These Musical Moments were gifts presented to concertgoers in the People’s Republic of China during a six-week tour in the summer of 2014.

From my heart to theirs.

This recording is a product of one final concert and one special microphone way above one beautiful Steinway in USC Thornton School’s Alfred Newman Auditorium.

The timeless composers of these works represent Austria, Russia, and Germany, as well as America and its jazz idiom so beloved by the Chinese.

While Schubert’s Moments Musicaux suggest the songs and dances of the Austrian countryside, the listener experiences subtle and complex emotions: playfulness, wistfulness, passion, reminiscence, profound sweetness, and a palpable sense of smiling through tears.

Rachmaninov bares the Russian soul: his Prelude in G-sharp minor evokes sleighbells intertwined with feelings of deep longing, his Moments Musicaux No. 1 in B-flat minor a slow but intense emotional journey, and his Moments Musicaux No. 4 in E minor a tornado of unbridled passion.

In his Souvenir de Porto Rico, Gottschalk depicts Puerto Rican peasants taking flights of fantasy to relieve the drudgery of their everyday reality.

Robert Schumann offers a collection of short “dances” depicting characters from the League of David, a society of artists (some real, some imaginary) reflecting aspects of his own personality. The second one is thought to express his deep love for Clara, the theme of which recurs towards the end of the entire work. The coda leaves us with a simple but profound message delivered through the soulful eyes of the introvert Eusebius.

At the time of my China tour, an American in concert there just had to include an encore by Gershwin! (Antoinette Perry)

Antoinette Perry, piano

Antoinette Perry
born into a family of professional musicians, gave her first public performance at the age of four. Since then she has concertized extensively throughout the United States, Germany, France, England, and in over 15 cities of the People’s Republic of China. She has been heard often on NPR and the Bravo! Channel, and has recorded for the Crystal, Harmonie, Pacific Rainbow, Pacific Serenades, Excelsior, and Navona/PARMA labels.

Le Dauphine Libéré has lauded her “irreproachable technique” and “a musical comprehension which could only belong to one of the Greats.” Germaine Vadi of Les Affiches de Grenoble et du Dauphine wrote : “One felt oneself to be in the presence of a great pianist---an absolute art of nuance, her subtle touch, and finally her perfect musical understanding, which permits her to assimilate the music of all cultures.” The LA Times has praised her “exceptional artistry” (Bruce Burroughs), her “superb Schubert in every respect” (Albert Goldberg), and, in a performance with the LA Mozart Orchestra: “The centerpiece was Mozart’s Piano Concerto in G, K. 543, in a wonder of pertinent, pointed musicality…expressive…richly detailed…”(John Henken).

Artist-faculty Emeritus at the Aspen Music Festival and School, Ms. Perry performed in over 100 concerts during her 25-year tenure. Other festivals include Bravo!International, Lansum International, Zhengzhou International, Saarburg International, Idyllwild Arts Academy, Chamber Music Sedona, Ojai Festival, Taipei International, 20th Century Unlimited in Santa Fe, and the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, among others.

As a young artist she was one of only two women representing the United States in the 6th Van Cliburn International Competition (1981) and subsequently received a fellowship to the Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood. A highlight of her later career was the opportunity to perform the Mozart Double and Triple Concerti with Leon Fleisher, Katherine Jacobson, and the Aspen Chamber Symphony, to commemorate the Aspen Music Festival’s 150th anniversary and Leon Fleisher’s 75th birthday.

As a chamber musician, Ms. Perry has collaborated with many of the world’s greatest artists, including John Perry, Leon Fleisher, Brooks Smith, Ralph Kirshbaum, Ronald Leonard, David Shifrin, Eugene Fodor, Henri Temianka, Joachin Valdepenas, Carol Wincenc, and actors Michael York and Walter Matthau. She has performed with members of the American, Chicago, Cleveland, Emerson, Juilliard, Angeles, Paganini, Sequoia and Takacs String Quartets, with concertmasters of the Chicago Symphony, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Hague Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony, Baltimore Philharmonic, and the Orpheus, Los Angeles and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestras, as well as principals of the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, the Gulbenkian and Zurich Tonnehalle Orchestras, the Toronto and San Francisco Symphonies, and the LA, Stuttgart and Saarbrücken Operas. Other collaborators were faculty members at Juilliard, Eastman School, Manhattan School, Peabody Institute, Beijing Central Conservatory, Seoul National University, Glenn Gould Conservatory in Toronto, R.D. Colburn School, the Shepherd School at Rice, and the Universität der Künste in Berlin. In LA she collaborates regularly with members of the USC and UCLA faculties and well as with prominent film industry musicians.

She also enjoys bringing new music to audiences, having premiered works by Michael Patterson, Roger Bourland, Mark Carlson, Steven Christopher Sacco, John Steinmetz, Bevan Manson, Donald Keats, Roland E. Curb and Chikako Iverson.

Ms. Perry served on the UCLA piano faculty for 12 years before joining the faculty of the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music in 1996, where she currently teaches. She has given over 200 master classes, most notably at the Eastman School of Music and as artist-in-residence for a week at the Beijing Central Conservatory. Former students are enjoying successful careers as performers and pedagogues throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.

Her wonderful teachers have included John Perry, Carlo Zecchi, Gilbert Kalish, Richard Goode, Danielle Martin and Richard Angeletti. As a child she was surrounded with the beautiful, rich sounds of her pianist mother, Lillian Haslach Teddlie, her bass-baritone father, Paul Krueger, and later her step-father, baritone Antonio Perez.

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