Janáček – Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 (“From the Street”), I. Předtucha (Foreboding)

April 25, 2015

I hope you will forgive the fact that this is not yet the post about memory! I decided that this would also be a good place to talk about my recordings when I post them on YouTube. Hopefully you will enjoy some of the videos or at least find them interesting. The videos that I will share over the coming weeks will likely all come from my recent solo recital at Tenri Cultural Institute (NYC) at the end of February.

In fall of 2009, I studied abroad in Prague during the first semester of my junior year of college. It was there that I studied with Martin Vojtíšek for one semester and there also that I encountered Leoš Janáček and this sonata for the first time. Originally I chose to learn this piece only to sort of add to the experience of studying in Prague. I was a music education major…

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