San Francisco Int’l Piano Festival Finale: Les Années Folles
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Old First Concerts | 1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, CA 94109
Event Details
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The festival concludes Season 4.5 through the lens of an historical epoch that is both precedent and premonition: the 1918 Spanish Flu, the armistice of 1919, and the advent of the roaring twenties. The Piano Festival takes its inspiration from this moment and follows the thread of innocence lost and reclaimed, tragedy mourned, joy in rebirth, and the dizzying juxtaposition of folly and destruction.
Highlights include performances of Couperin, Bach, and Poulenc with Jory Vinikour and Philippe LeRoy, Gwendolyn Mok and Jesse Barrett performing Saint-Saens’ Sonata for Oboe and Piano, works by Nadia Boulanger and Germaine Tailleferre, and the vertiginous La Valse by Ravel reimagined through multimedia.
Jory Vinikour, harpsichord
Philippe LeRoy, harpsichord
Gwendolyn Mok, piano
Jesse Barrett, oboe
Jeffrey LaDeur, piano
Nadia Boulanger Vers la vie nouvelle
Francis Poulenc Suite Française
Camille Saint-Saëns Sonata for Oboe and Piano
Germaine Tailleferre 2 Valses for two pianos
Strauss/Godowsky Die Fledermaus Paraphrase
Maurice Ravel La Valse
plus selected works by J. S. Bach and François Couperin
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Cost: $25*
