Recital Series: Sally Pinkas

Debussy's L'isle joyeuse of 1904 was inspired by a Watteau painting and conjured a journey to Cythera, the island considered Aphrodite's birthplace. Bartók, in his 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs of 1918, recaptures authentic folk melodies gathered in remote villages of his native Hungary. And Prokofiev's 4th Piano Sonata of 1917, "From the Old Notebooks", evokes the Russian tradition of musical fairy tales, with its dark and spooky scenery. With her steadfast attentiveness, Pinkas will guide us through these tonally varied worlds, from the ecstatic weightlessness of Debussy to the earthiness of Bartók and Prokofiev's shadowy lyricism.