Following a meteoric rise “to rock-star status in the classical music world” (Globe and Mail) sparked by winning the 2021 International Chopin Piano Competition, Bruce Liu makes his much-anticipated Chicago debut. His program includes inventive keyboard compositions by Rameau, Kapustin, Haydn and Prokofiev, as well as Chopin’s Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor, with its famous funeral march at its structural and emotional heart.
Sonata in B Minor, Hob. XVI:32
Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor, Op. 35
Variations, Op. 41
Les tendres plaintes from Pièces de clavecin
Les cyclopes from Pièces de clavecin
Menuets I & II from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin
Les sauvages from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin
La poule from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin
Gavotte with six doubles from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin
Sonata No. 7 in B-flat Major, Op. 83
Allemande from French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816 [Encore]
Waltz in D-flat Major, Op. 64, No. 1 (Minute) [Encore]
Nocturne in C-sharp Minor, Op. posth. [Encore]
Swan Lake, Op. 20a, Act II; Dance of the Four Swans [Encore]
La Campanella from Grandes études de Paganini [Encore]
Prelude in B Minor, BWV 855a [Encore]
Please join us for a postconcert CD signing with Bruce Liu. This signing will take place in Grainger Ballroom and is open to all ticket holders. Merchandise will be available at the Symphony Store preconcert and Grainger Ballroom at intermission and postconcert.
