Barber, Chopin & Mendelssohn

Barber, Chopin & Mendelssohn
Michael Torke’s groundbreaking Ash of 1989 was called "one of the most remarkable orchestral works to have emerged from America in recent years" (Gramophone). Barber’s haunting Adagio for Strings is famous for its memorable use in the 1986 movie Platoon. Formerly director of piano studies at PLU, pianist Regina Yeh has been lauded by the New York press for her "fiery musicality" and "meltingly beautiful" sound. Chopin’s youthful 2nd piano concerto features piano writing "of such imagination and beauty that (his) inexperience writing for the orchestra is immaterial." (Phillip Huscher) It was written in 1830, when he was just 20, as the vehicle for his rapid and complete conquest of Paris.