Vote for Encore

For a little end-of-this-dreadful-year fun and to raise a bit of $$ for your favorite chamber orchestra, we are having a virtual contest for which encore you would like Hilda Huang to perform on New Year's Eve.

Voting has closed.

Your three choices are:

Italian Concerto - III: Presto

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Published in 1735, Johann wrote this piece to imitate an Italian concerto grosso, a work for a small ensemble with a soloist. The trick is to use the keyboard in a way that sounds like lots of players or one player at a moment’s notice. It’s quite tricksy!

Runtime: 3:30

It sounds like this:

Six Bagatelles Op. 126, No. 4

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Ludwig considered these six pieces to be “quite the best pieces of their kind that I have written”. If that doesn’t win you over, these piano works come from the same period of his life as his Ninth Symphony and the Missa solemnis.

Runtime: 3:50

It sounds like this:

“Claire de Lune”

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

One of the most famous tunes in our current society used by lullaby albums, television and movie scores, you name it. Claude was inspired by a poem of the same name from Paul Verlaine. So inspired, he wrote this work along with two others for voice and piano.

Runtime: 5:30

It sounds like this: