Piano: Yizhe Sun
Program: Etude-Tableau Op. 33 No. 2 
Composer: Rachmaninoff

In the summer of 1911, a year after he finished his 24 preludes, Rachmaninoff started on a new set of piano solo pieces, which he titled Études Tableaux, meaning ‘picture pieces’. This set of works is very different to the preludes, as they are intended to create ‘musical evocations of external visual stimuli’. However, Rachmaninoff himself didn’t give clear suggestions of the picture, but he wanted listeners to paint the picture themselves.