I am interested in programming my recitals with a thematic structure which helps the audiences to see how different musical languages can portray similar subjects in a variety of ways.
‘Carnival of the Animals’
Schumann: Papillions Op.2
Daquin: ‘Cuckoo’ Suite
Granados: Quejas, o La Maja y el ruiseñor (Complaint, or the Girl and the Nightingale)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumble-Bee (arranged by Rachmaninoff)
Schubert-Liszt: “Die Forelle” (The trout), S.563 No.6
Debussy: Poissons d’or (from ‘Images Book 2’)
Chopin Waltz: Op 64 No. 1; Op 34 No. 3
Copland: The Cat and The Mouse
Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animal (arranged by An-Ting Chang)
‘Fantasia’
Chopin: Fantasie Op. 49
C.P.E. Bach Fantasie in F major
Bach: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, BWV 903
Gibbons: Fantasie in A minor
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasia (piano solo arrangement by An-Ting Chang)
Schumann: Fantasie Op.17 Mvt.2
Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy
Scriabin: Fantaisie in B minor
An-Ting Chang: Fantasia
‘Water Image’
Beethoven’s: Moonlight Sonata
Liszt: Le Jeux d’Eau a la Villa d’E ste
Ravel: Jeux d’Eau
Debussy: Jardins sous la pluie (from ‘Estampes’)
Chopin: Barcarolle, Op 60
Ravel: Ondine (from ‘Gaspard de la Nuit’)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
‘Exotic Fusions’
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75
Granados: Los Requiebros from Goyescas
Bach: Italian Concerto BWV 971, Mv 2&3
Debussy: Estampes
Bedřich Smetana: Polka from Czech Dances Book I
Chopin: Grande Polonaise Brilliante
Ginastera: Danzas Argentinas, Mv 2&3