Eleven-year-old pianist Rui Gong of Newton will present Romance from the North, his first solo recital of Scandinavian repetoire, at the Scandinavian Cultural Center (206 Waltham Street, West Newton) on Sunday, September 7 at 3PM. Admission is by voluntary contribution ($20 suggested).
See the Fig City News profile of Rui Gong and his teacher, Paul Bempechat.
Rui Gong will perform pieces representing the five Scandinavian countries, by their most revered composers: Denmark’s Carl Nielsen, Finland’s Jean Sibelius, Iceland’s Jón Leifs, Norway’s Edvard Grieg and Sweden’s Wilhelm Peterson-Berger. Dr. Bempéchat will be introducing their historical backgrounds and impact on the history of music.
Program:
- Nielsen: Six Humoresque-Bagatelles, Opus 11 (1897)
- Sibelius: Étude in A minor, Opus 76, no. 2 (1911-19)
- Peterson-Berger: Sommarsången (Song of Summer), Opus 16, no. 2 (1896)
- Leifs: Íslensk rímnadanslög (Icelandic Folk Dances), Opus 11, no. 4 (1929-30)
- Grieg: Suite Fra Holbergs tid (From Holberg`s Time) (1884)
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