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Actual Programs

John Cage

 
 

Repertoire

 

Chamber Music

 

Piano Concertos

Actual solo programs

Robert Schumann

(1810 - 1856)









John Adams

(*1947)



Franz Schubert

(1797 - 1828)


Kreisleriana op. 16

  Aeusserst bewegt

  Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch

  Sehr aufgeregt

  Sehr langsam

  Sehr lebhaft

  Sehr langsam

  Sehr rasch

  Schnell und spielend


China Gates (1977)


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Sonata B major D 960

  Molto moderato

  Andante sostenuto

  Scherzo: Allegro vivace con delicatezza – Trio

  Allegro, ma non troppo - Presto

Program I

Hans Erich Apostel

(1901 - 1972)


J. S. Bach

(1685 - 1750)


John Adams

(*1947)


Claude Debussy

(1862 - 1918)


 

Claude Debussy

(1862 - 1918)

Kubiniana

  Ten piano pieces after drawings by Alfred Kubin, Op.13 (1946)


Präludium und Fuge b-minor

  BWV 867 from: Welltempered Piano Book I (1722)


China Gates (1977)



Clair de lune (1890, from: „Suite bergamasque“)


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Préludes Book I (1907/08)

  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

Modest Mussorgsky 

(1839 - 1881)


















 

Stephen Montague

(*1943)

Pictures at an Exhibition (1874)

  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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Autumn Leaves for piano with life electronics (2000 - 2003)

  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 

John Cage


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. 




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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

 

Repertoire (for details point with the mouse on the names of the composers)


Baroque

 Bach


Classic

 Haydn

 Mozart

 Beethoven

 Schubert


Romantik

 Balakirew

 Brahms

 Chopin

 Grieg

 Liszt

 Mussorgsky

 Schumann

 Skrjabin

 Tschaikowski


Impressionism

 Debussy

 Ravel


Classical modern music

 Apostel, Bartok, Boulanger, Hartmann, Janacek, Schoenberg, Schulhoff, Strawinsky, 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 concertos


Haydn

‍ Piano Concerto G major


Mozart

‍ Piano Concerto A major KV 414

‍ Piano Concerto G major KV 453

‍ Piano Concerto C major KV 467

‍ Piano Concerto C minor KV 491


Beethoven

‍ 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 


Brahms

‍ Piano Concerto B-Dur op. 83


Chopin

‍ Piano Concerto Nr. 1 e-moll op. 11


Tschaikowsky

‍ Piano Concerto B major op. 83


Debussy

‍ Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra


Bartok

‍ Piano Concerto no. 3


Finzi

‍ Ekloge


Pensel

‍ Piano Concerto


Henze

‍ Jeux des tritons

‍ Sacred Concertos 

Bartok Piano concerto 3

Chamber music

Yucati Trio (violin, violoncello, piano)

tonkunst ensemble hannover

Christoph Marks, Violoncello

Ma Xiaohui, erhu

Laura Pohl, soprano

Trio Saron (soprano, clarinet, piano)

Klaus Wunderer, violoncello

Christoph Rosenbaum, tenor

Ceruti Trio (violin, violoncello, piano)

Dieter Hufschmidt, reciter

Ralf Pegelhoff, clarinet

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