Piano Expressions
Sun Oct 13, 15:30 - Sun Oct 13, 17:30
NWU School of Music, Conservatory Hall
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The doctrine of affects, also known as the German Affektenlehre, was a theory of aesthetics widely accepted during the Baroque whereby composers proposed the idea that music can evoke a variety of emotions in the listener. Join pianist, Waldo Weyer, in his exploration of all that music represents. The piano can bring forth both light-heartedness and sadness in two sonatas by Scarlatti. We will find humour, contemplation, and joyful dance in a sonata by Haydn. There is touching tenderness and romance in the two-character pieces by Schumann – a Berceuse, Op. 124 no. 16 and the Romanze, Op. 28 no. 2.
The second half of the programme begins with dreamy nostalgia in two Nocturnes by Chopin. This in turn, is starkly juxtaposed with the haunting and atmospheric soundscape depicted by Liszt's Nuages Gris (Grey Clouds). The piece introduces the listener to the possibilities of expression through atonal music and Berg's Sonata Op. 1 epitomises the diabolus in musica - the dreaded augmented fourth interval or tritone.
Join us in the beautiful Conservatory Hall on Sunday, 13 October at 15:30 to enjoy the gamut of emotions, passions, and sensations that the traditions of music through the centuries have gifted us with.