Ilya Yakushev, piano

One of our Athenaeum audience’s best-loved pianists and winner of numerous international competitions, Ilya Yakushev will return for a solo recital rich in variety, featuring a little something for everyone. Yakushev’s program opens with Haydn and Mozart before embarking on Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata. A Romantic second half includes a selection of Rachmaninoff’s preludes in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth.

Program:

Joseph Haydn
Sonata in D Major, Hob.XVI:37

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Adagio in B Minor, K.540

Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata in C-sharp Minor, op. 27 no. 2, “Moonlight”

—Intermission—

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Scriabin
Prelude and Nocturne for the Left Hand Alone, op. 9

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prelude in G Minor, op. 23, no.5
Alla marcia
Prelude in G-sharp Minor, op. 32, no.12z
Prelude in C-sharp Minor, op. 3, no 2

Franz Liszt
Vallée d’Obermann

George Gershwin
Three Preludes