“A pianist full of fire and warmth” (Plain-Dealer), Daria Rabotkina takes to The Reser stage for a picturesque program inspired by art and literature. The central movement of Granados’s Goyescas is a melancholy nocturne that displays the composer’s ability to paint cinematic scenes through sound, while Prokofiev’s immortal Romeo and Juliet examines the beauty and fragility of life and love with some of the piano repertoire’s most heart-melting melodies. And in a work she’s championed in concert halls across the country, Rabotkina closes the program with Paul Harvey Aurandt’s Sonata in B-flat Minor, which pays homage to the emotional sweep of Schubert and Rachmaninoff.
ENRIQUE GRANADOS
Quejas, o La Maja y el ruiseñor (The Maiden and the Nightingale) from Goyescas, op. 11
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Ten Pieces from Romeo and Juliet
PAUL HARVEY AURANDT
Sonata in B-flat Minor