Sara Davis Buechner offers 88 keys to enjoyment on today’s Noontime Concert on The Classical Network.
On the program will be Mozart’s Fantasy in C minor, K.475, and Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K. 457; Chopin’s Introduction and Rondo in E flat major, Op. 16; Anton Arensky’s “Four Salon Pieces,” and Gershwin’s “Second Rhapsody,” in Davis’ own arrangement for solo piano.
Buechner, a top prize winner at the Queen Elisabeth (Brussels), Leeds, Mozart (Salzburg), Beethoven (Vienna), and Sydney International Piano Competitions, is currently on the faculty of Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance. She was a Bronze Medalist at the 1986 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and a Gold Medalist at the 1984 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition.
Among her recordings are rarely-heard works of Rudolf Friml, Joseph Lamb, Joaquin Turina, Miklós Rózsa, and Ferruccio Busoni, including the world premiere recording of Busoni’s arrangement of Bach’s “Goldberg Variations.” Stereophile magazine selected her Gershwin CD as “Recording of the Month.” Her album of Hollywood piano concertos was the recipient of Germany’s Deutsches Schauplatten Preis.
The concert was originally presented as part of last season’s Silberman Recital Series at New York’s Baruch Performing Arts Center. Ted Altschuler, the center’s director, will offer an overview of the upcoming season’s offerings at the conclusion of today’s program.
Then stay tuned for the complete ballet “The Arabian Nights” by Azerbaijani composer Fikret Amirov. The ballet, given its premiere in 1979, is one of the rare adaptations to emerge from a region which gave us the original stories that make up “A Thousand and One Nights.” The world famous adventures of Sinbad, Ali Baba and Aladdin are enshrined in these tales, and each of them make an appearance in the ballet’s second act. Scheherazade will captivate with 90 minutes of her storytelling genius, beginning around 2:00.
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