Music and Videos
Padre Antonio Soler - Fandango in d minor, R 146
Genaro Pereira (Steinway piano) live November 2017 first upload from solo piano recital in Robert Sibson Hall Zimbabwe Academy of Music
Live performance of Bach Chromatic Fantasy
Genaro Pereira performs The Chromatic Fantasia in D minor, BWV 903 in Harare, Zimbabwe August 2016 recorded on Zoom video recorder.
Wagner/Liszt Isoldens Liebestod (S.447)
The last scene from the opera Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner is here most effectively transcribed by Franz Liszt. Isolde dies as she sings of being reunited with her love Tristan in a unity only possible in the afterlife. Shimmering images of the bliss awaiting her after death shine before her eyes alone...Liszt propagating the music of Wagner, his eventual son-in-law, in an honest transcription of the orchestral parts. Liszt on his deathbed too mustered "Tristan..." before he crossed over to that place so magically described in both composer's music.
Performed at a recital on 13th of February 2015 at the Salle Odette Pilpoul in Paris, France by pianist Genaro Pereira
Óscar da Silva "Dolorosas" V - Allegretto
Óscar Courrège da Silva Araújo was born in Porto in 1870. During his lifetime the monarchy will end in Portugal, the first republic rises and falls, and the Estado Novo comes to be. As one of the most prolific composers of piano music from Portugal his musical inspirations came from German Romanticism and reach out to elements of Modernism. The Saudosismo movement claimed him as a member of their nationalist group that sought to bring out through art and education the unique qualities of the Portuguese race and saw in da Silva a representation of this distinctive mark. I was touched first by the beauty of his music as I re-discovered his out-of-print scores in the National library of Portugal.
Leopold Godowsky - In the Kraton
I love the idea that the inspiration for the Java Suite came from Godowsky’s travels as he visited Indonesia. These are for me musical post-cards or in Godowsky’s own words “Phonoramas” from a time (1925) before digicams and 24-hour travel channels.
Godowsky paints such a vivid picture of what he was privileged and intrepid enough to see. From out of the dark tropical night, screens are slipped aside to reveal antechambers or brassy courts replete with the clamour of gamelan orchestras. Arising and subsiding, these two works consume and breathe golden flame and glitter glamorously.
Leopold Godowsky's In the Kraton from the Java Suite: Phonoramas or Tonal journeys for the pianoforte performed here live.
Luciano Berio FeurKlavier Live in concert - Paris January 2017
Luciano Berio’s FeurKlavier is from the 6 Encores that were composed in the years between 1965 and 1990. The piano crackles, sizzles and positively explodes in sparks in this incredibly effective piece of contemporary music. Berio utilizes cluster chords, erratic rhythms and extreme ranges to evoke the element of FIRE. Genaro performs this work on a vintage Steinway LIVE in Paris.