Music: Love and Death: Piano Music of Chopin and Joe (Hisaishi) - Edinburg

Piano faculty Dr. Shoko Kinsella will explore the wonders of love and death through exquisite piano music by Frédéric Chopin and Joe Hisaishi.  The program will include a melancholic Nocturne and the dramatic "Funeral March" Sonata by Chopin, as well as beautiful selections from Joe Hisaishi's piano solos written for Studio Ghibli animation films, TV commercials, and a movie by Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano.

 

 

Nocturne in b-flat minor, Op. 9, no. 1                                                                                                     Frédéric Chopin                                                                                                                                                                                                              (1810-1849)

 

Sonata in b-flat minor (“Funeral March”), Op. 35                                                                                               Chopin                         

1. Grave – Doppio movimento
2. Scherzo

• Marche funèbre: Lento

1. Finale: Presto

 

One Summer’s Day (from Spirited Away by Studio Ghibli)                                                                 Joe Hisaishi

                                                                                                                                                                                                           (b. 1950)

Merry-Go-Round of Life (from Howl’s Moving Castle by Studio Ghibli)       

Il Porco Rosso (from Porco Rosso by Studio Ghibli)

Summer (from Kikujiro by Takeshi Kitano Film)

Silence (from Etude for TV Commercial by Dunlop/Sumitomo)

A Wish to the Moon (Etude on Repeated Notes and Ragtime Beats)