Yulia Chaplina plays 3 concerts in Cornwall: Programme Gerrans Friday 20th, Mylor Saturday 21st and Penzance Sunday 22nd June 2025

 

 

Concert Programme   Penzance  Methodist Church Sunday 22^nd June 2025  tickets buytickets.at/metronome

Yulia Chaplina  - pianoforte

Bagatelles Op. 119                                                                                           Beethoven

G minor  A minor

 Impromptus Op. 90                                                                                        Schubert

C minor - Allegro molto moderato

                E flat major - Allegro

                G flat major - Andante

                A flat major - Allegretto - Trio

 INTERVAL

 Prelude from the Gadfly  Op. 97                                                 Shostakovich

Romance from Ballet Suite No. 1

Gavotte from Ballet Suite No. 3

Remembrance Waltz from The Tale of the Priest and his Worker, Blockhead Op. 36

Melancholy from Moscow, Cheremushki Op. 105

Sentimental Waltz from Moscow, Cheremushki

 

Lullaby Op. 16 no. 1                                                                                         Tchaikovsky

 Excerpts from The Nutcracker Op. 71

 Vocalise Op. 34 no. 14                                                                   Rachmaninov

 

Children’s Notebooks No. 1                                                         Weinberg

 Waltz-Song & Waltz-Flowers from Moscow, Cheremushki Op. 105  Tchaikovsky

 

Give Me My Music Back                                                                 Babajanian

 

This concert concludes the International Concert Artist season for 2025-2026 which has included s

Yulia Chaplina

Described by International Piano Magazine as ‘with technical fluency and rich tonal shading reminiscent of the great Communist era artists such as Emil Gilels’ and held by Paul Badura-Skoda in ‘highest regard as a concert pianist’, Julia is the winner of 7 international piano competitions. Since winning the First Prize & the Gold Medal in the prestigious Tchaikovsky International Competition for Young Musicians, she has performed regularly as a soloist in many of the world's finest venues, including the Wigmore Hall and the Southbank Centre in London, Berlin’s Philharmonie, the Grand Halls of the Moscow Conservatoire and the St. Petersburg Philharmonia, Bunka Kaikan Hall in Tokyo and many other concert halls.

 Julia holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Arts (Berlin), Masters in Music & Fellowship from the RCM (London). Yulia received music coaching from Mstislav Rostropovitch, Andras Schiff, Mitsuko Uchida, Paul Badura-Skoda, David Waterman, Steven Isserlis, Thomas Adès and Liliya Zilberstein. 

​About the Russian composers

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September [O.S. 12 September] 1906 – 9 August 1975)

Shostakovich achieved early fame in the Soviet Union, but had a complex relationship with its government. In 1948, his work was denounced under the Zhdanov Doctrine, with professional consequences lasting several years. Nevertheless, Shostakovich was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR (1947) and the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (from 1962 until his death), as well as chairman of the RSFSR Union of Composers (1960–1968). Over the course of his career, he earned several important awards, including the Order of Lenin, from the Soviet government.

 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893)

He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto, the Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy, several symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin.

 Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninov (1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1873 – 28 March 1943)

Rachmaninov is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music. Early influences of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and other Russian composers gave way to a thoroughly personal idiom notable for its song-like melodicism, expressiveness, dense contrapuntal textures, and rich orchestral colours. The piano is featured prominently in Rachmaninov's compositional output and he used his skills as a performer to fully explore the expressive and technical possibilities of the instrument.

Mieczysław Weinberg (December 8, 1919 – February 26, 1996)

He was a Polish, Soviet, and Russian composer and pianist, born in Warsaw. In 1939 as the Wehrmacht advanced on Warsaw,  Weinberg fled towards the Soviet border.  Weinberg took refuge in the Soviet Union, where he officially adopted a Russified version of his name. He settled first in Minsk then in Tashkent.   Weinberg sent a copy of his Symphony No. 1 to Dmitri Shostakovich which resulted in an official invitation from the Committee on the Arts to come to Moscow. Upon arriving in the capital,  Weinberg successfully established himself as a composer.  He experienced his greatest professional success in the 1960s, when his music was played by musicians such as Rudolf Barshai, the Borodin Quartet Kirill Kondrashin, and Mstislav Rostropovich, among others. Despite being awarded the People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1980, shifts in musical tastes and chronic health problems led to the neglect of Weinberg's music. In 1994, Poland awarded Weinberg the Meritorious Activist of Culture.  After consultations with his wife in late 1995, he converted to Orthodox Christianity a few weeks before his death on February 26, 1996.

 Arno Harutyuni Babajanian (January 22, 1921 – November 11, 1983)

Babajanian was born in Yerevan. By age 5, his musical talent was apparent, and the composer Aram Khachaturian suggested that the boy be given proper music training. Two years later, in 1928, Babajanian entered the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan. In 1938, he continued his studies in Moscow with Vissarion Shebalin.

Babajanian wrote in various musical genres, including many popular songs in collaboration with leading poets such as Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Robert Rozhdestvensky. Much of his music is rooted in Armenian folk music and folklore, which he generally uses in the virtuosic style of Rachmaninov and Khachaturian. His later works were influenced by Prokofiev and Bartók. Praised by Dmitri Shostakovich as a "brilliant piano teacher", Babajanian was also a noted pianist and often performed his own works in concerts.