Selected Recordings from the 2010 Bradshaw & Buono
International Piano Competition
Performed by Ria Carlo, Prizewinner
George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)
"Handel is the greatest composer who ever lived; I would bare my head and kneel at his grave." -- Ludwig van Beethoven
"I should be sorry if I only entertained them [with my music]; I wish to make them better." -- G. F. Handel
Suite in B-flat, "Sonata", HWV 434
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Reminiscent of the countryside and nature, this Sonata is "admired for the intricacy and technicality in the ease it portrays."
"The happy soul is now on spirit-wings..ever sunning itself in the freedom which its new wings bring, over land and sea, buoyant and rhythmical." -- Frederic Horace Clarke, 1898
Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major, Op. 28, "Pastorale", IV. "Rondo"