Daniel Glover - Symphonies and Concertos without Orchestra (a Covid Compromise)

*** LIVE STREAM LINK HERE *** Symphonies and Concertos without Orchestra (a Covid Compromise) honoring Beethoven’s 250^th Birthday Daniel Glover will perform rare solo piano works which also exist(ed) as orchestral works. Since we currently have no chance to attend live orchestra concerts, this recital will remind us of what we have been missing. Performed in honor of Beethoven’s 250^th birthday (December 16!) the program features works with a connection to Beethoven, including a newly discovered work by the master, only just found and published in Vienna this year! This is most likely an unverified West Coast premiere! Muzio Clementi's Sonata in G minor, Opus 34, No. 2 was alleged to have been a symphony, prior to this alternate version for piano solo. The original symphony has been lost. It obsessively uses the same rhythm as Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, and many scholars speculate that it was Beethoven's inspiration. It was composed in 1795 prior to Beethoven's first three piano sonatas, Opus 2, and his Symphony No. 1. Charles-Valentin Alkan's masterly solo transcription of the first movement of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 seamlessly combines the orchestral and piano parts into an impressive whole. Although his hyper-virtuosic and inordinately lengthy original cadenza is a primary reason to hear the work, Daniel will instead play the neglected cadenza by the late Romantic American composer Amy Beach. John Corigilano's Fantasy on an Ostinato (1985) was commissioned as a competition piece for the seventh Van Cliburn Competition. It uses the obsessive rhythm and simple harmony of Beethoven's iconic slow movement from his Seventh Symphony. The performer decides on the duration and number of repetitions of patterns played in this quasi-minimalistic/improvisatory work. The concert will conclude with Liszt's Fantasy on themes from Beethoven's "Ruins of Athens." The piece was first composed by Liszt as a work for piano and orchestra in 1852, and later as a piano solo, and also for two pianos. It utilizes three prominent themes from Beethoven's incidental music to The Ruins of Athens, for vocal soloists, chorus and orchestra: the march, Chorus of Dervishes, and the much beloved Turkish March. Pianist Daniel Glover has performed in 42 states and 25 countries throughout Europe, Asia, North America, South America and the Caribbean. Called “an incisive, exciting, and apparently tireless player … a natural for hyper-virtuosic challenge” by the San Jose Mercuty News, Mr. Glover has trained with such luminaries as Eugene List, Abbey Simon, Jerome Lowenthal, Nancy Bachus and Thomas LaRatta. He holds a master’s degree from New York’s Juilliard School, where he was a scholarship student. Among his numerous competition awards is first prize in the prestigious Liederkranz Competition in 1990. With a repertoire of over fifty-five concerti and other works for piano and orchestra, Mr. Glover has appeared regularly with eighteen Bay Area orchestras, as well as numerous orchestras nationally and internationally. Recent appearances include the critically acclaimed World Premiere performance of Eric Zeisl’s Concerto in C major (1952) in May 2005 with the Saratoga Symphony, Brahms’ Concerto No. 2 in B-flat and Ravel’s Concerto in G with the Tulare County Symphony, Mozart’s Concerto in C minor, K. 491 with the Szeged Philharmonic (Hungary), Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 3 with the North Bay Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 2 in G with the Nova Vista Symphony, Bartok’s Rhapsody, Opus 1 with the Kensington Symphony, Prokofiev’s Concerto No. 3 with the Redwood Symphony, Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini with the Palo Alto Philharmonic, Saint-Saëns Concerto No. 2 with the Mission Chamber Orchestra, and Messian’s massive Turangalîla-Symphonie.