(1810 - 1856)
(*1947)
Aeusserst bewegt
Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch
Sehr aufgeregt
Sehr langsam
Sehr lebhaft
Sehr langsam
Sehr rasch
Schnell und spielend
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Molto moderato
Andante sostenuto
Scherzo: Allegro vivace con delicatezza – Trio
Allegro, ma non troppo - Presto
Program I
(1901 - 1972)
(1685 - 1750)
(*1947)
(1862 - 1918)
(1862 - 1918)
Ten piano pieces after drawings by Alfred Kubin, Op.13 (1946)
BWV 867 from: Welltempered Piano Book I (1722)
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Danseuses de Delphes
Voiles
Le vent dans la plaine
Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir
Les collines d'Anacapri
Des pas sur la neige
Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest
La fille aux cheveux de lin
La sérénade interrompue
La cathédrale engloutie
La danse de Puck
Minstrels
Program II - Fantasy Images
Program III
(1839 - 1881)
(*1943)
Promenade
Gnomus
Promenade
Il vecchio castello
Promenade
Tuileries (Dispute d‘enfants aprés jeux)
Bydlo
Promenade
Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle
Promenade
Limoges – Le marché (La grande nouvelle)
Catacombae (Sepulcrum romanum)
Con mortuis in lingua mortua
The Hut on Hen‘s Legs (Baba-Yaga)
The Bogatyr Gate (at Kiev, the Ancient Capital)
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When Autumn Leaves Begin to Fall
Whirlwind at the Arsenal
A Jack O'Lantern Smiles
Night Frost Settles on a Pumpkin
Dagger Dance
A Crippled Ghost at Halloween
Something's in Grandma's Attic
Run from an Evil Sky
Thanksgiving Hymn
A Turkey Gobbler
After Midnight in Sleepy Hollow
The Headless Horseman
Sonatas & Interludes
for prepared piano
What does music has in common with screws? Normally precious few. But nevertheless, there can be some. Whenever the American composer John Cage provides the strings of a piano with screws, nuts, pieces of plastic and rubber strips, then there arises a tender, sensitive world of sounds, which reminds rather of far eastern meditative sounds as to the thundering of a grand piano. An unexpected sound world enthralls the audience.
The complete cycle (approx. 70 minutes) is presented together with an introduction to this sensitive music, associated with texts and quotations from John Cage. After the concert it is worthwhile to have a look into the the interior of the grand piano.
A recording of the Sonatas & Interludes has become published at CordAria (CDs).
Sonata 2
Watch on youtube:
John Cage · Sonatas & Interludes (complete) - Tim Ovens, piano
Baroque
Bach
Classic
Haydn
Mozart
Beethoven
Schubert
Romantik
Balakirew
Brahms
Chopin
Grieg
Liszt
Mussorgsky
Schumann
Skrjabin
Tschaikovsky
Impressionism
Debussy
Ravel
Classical modern music
Apostel, Bartok, Boulanger, Hartmann, Janacek, Schoenberg, Schulhoff, Stravinsky, Webern
Contemporary music
Cage (most of the entire works, including all works for prepared piano,
all early works until 1948 as well as a large part of the later works)
Ablinger, Adams, Berio, Copland, Crumb, Doehl, Doernberg, Feldman, Hamel, Holliger, Killmayer, Kurtag,
Lachenmann, Li Ynghai, Ligeti, Mueller-Siemens, Paert, Spahlinger, Stockhausen, Takemitsu, and much more.
Piano Concerto G major
Piano Concerto A major KV 414
Piano Concerto G major KV 453
Piano Concerto C major KV 467
Piano Concerto C minor KV 491
Piano Concerto no. 3 C minor op. 37
Piano Concerto no. 4 G major op. 58
Concerto for Piano, Violin, Violoncello and Orchestra C major op. 56
Piano Concerto B-Dur op. 83
Piano Concerto Nr. 1 e-moll op. 11
Piano Concerto B major op. 83
Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra
Piano Concerto no. 3
Ekloge
Piano Concerto
Jeux des tritons
Sacred Concertos
Bartok Piano concerto 3
Welltempered Piano
Partitas
English Suites
Toccata e-minor
I call on Thee, Lord Jesus Christ
(Arrangement of Busoni)
Sonatas
Variations f minor Hob VII:6
Sonatas
Piano pieces
Sonatas
Bagatelles op. 33
32 Variations C minor WoO 80
Sonatas
Moments musicaux D 780
Impromptus op. 90
Dances
Islamey - Fantasy
Préludes op. 28
Etudes op. 25
Fantasy F minor op.49
Ballads
Barcarolle op.60
Particular Works
Piano Pieces
Dante Sonate
Il Penseroso
Mephisto Waltz
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique (Transcription)
Erlkoenig, The Trout, Auf den Wassern
(Arrangement of the Schubert Lieder)
Lyric Pieces
Papillons op. 2
Fantasy Pieces op. 12
Sinfonic Etudes op. 13
Kinderszenen op. 15
Kreisleriana op. 16
Fantasy C major op. 17
Pictures of an Exhibition
Préludes op. 22
Préludes op. 48
The Seasons op. 37 (selection)
Doumka op. 59
Images I and II
Estampes
Préludes I and II
Etudes
L' isle joyeuse
Masques
Ballade
Gaspard de la Nuit
Jeux d'eau
Kinderstueck
Serenade in A
Circus Polka
3rd Piano Sonata
Piano Pieces op. 19
Sonata „1.X.1905“
Sonata „27. April 1945“
Vers la vie nouvelle
Improvisations on Hungarian
Farmer Songs op. 20
Kubiniana
All works for prepared piano
All early works before 1948
Music for Piano
Water Music
34'46.776" for a Pianist
and more
Water Piano
Air Piano
Earth Piano
Fire Piano
Litany
Klavierstuecke III and IX
verlorener weg
For Alina
Under Neonlight III
Arc-en-ciel
Guero
Ein Kinderspiel
Jatekok
Piano Piece II
Elis
Die Zeit der Steine
Various Works
Piano Sonata I
Piano Sonata II
Bruchstuecke zur Winterreise
Seven Haiku
Makrokosmos II
Piano Variations
China Gates
Voices and Piano
Xi Yang Xiao Gu
(Playing of Drum and Bambooflute in the Sunset)
