Joseph Haydn
Piano Sonata in E major Hob. XVI:31
Moderato
Allegretto
Finale. Presto
Frédéric Chopin
Two Nocturnes op. 27
Larghetto in C-sharp minor
Lento sostenuto in D-flat major
Frédéric Chopin
Polonaise héroïque in A-flat major op. 53
Claude Debussy
Suite Pour le Piano
Prélude
Sarabande
Toccata
- Interval -
Robert Schumann
Symphonic Etudes op. 13
A single night unfolds across five vistas of the piano's imagination. We begin in Haydn's clear daylight, where reason and grace hold gentle court, before Chopin's Nocturnes draw us into shadow and reverie — shadow that his Polonaise héroïque then ignites into defiant, blazing resolve. Debussy dissolves this fire into archaic dream and shimmering moonlight, and Schumann closes the arc with variation upon variation of struggle transfigured into triumph — a panorama not of place, but of the soul moving through darkness toward light.