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Ilya Yakushev, piano
December 5, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
$15 – $55

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