Carnaval

Name: Carnaval — Ryan Zhu
Start: 2026-10-14T17:15:00+01:00
Location: Schwarzman Centre

Ryan Zhu

An Oxford International Song Festival and Schwarzman Centre Production

14 Oct 2026 17:15

Music

14 Oct 2026

17:15

14 Oct 2026

17:15

Schwarzman Centre, Oxford

Sohmen Concert Hall

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Presented in association with Hastings International Piano Competition.

22-year-old Canadian pianist Ryan Zhu recently won the prestigious Hastings International Piano Competition, giving an electrifying performance of Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. This brilliant young virtuoso performs Beethoven’s first Piano Sonata in F minor, and Schumann’s breathtaking Carnaval, a sequence of 21 short pieces written in 1825 and representing the many and varied characters at a masked ball.

Programme

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 - 1725)
Sonata in B minor K 27

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 2 no. 1
I Allegro
II Adagio
III Minuet / Allegretto
IV Prestissimo

Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Carnaval Op. 9
I Préambule
II Pierrot
III Arlequin
IV Valse noble
V Eusebius
VI Florestan
VII Coquette
VIII Replique / Sphinxs
IX Papillons
X A.S.C.H. S.C.H.A. (Lettres Dansantes)
XI Chiarina
XII Chopin
XIII Estrella
XIV Reconnaissance
XV Pantalon et Colombine
XVI Valse allemande
XVII Paganini
XVIII Aveu
XIX Promenade
XX Pause
XXI Marche des "Davidsbündler" contre les Philistins