Here are some new programs that will be of special interest for those concert sponsors who prefer a more traditional piano recital. Even though the below programs are not organized around a theme, I've still tried to put some thought and creativity into the selection and ordering of the pieces on each program.
For example, the first program climaxes to the second half, which consists of two major pieces whose forms and contents are foreshadowed by pieces on the first half. The final composition by Franck is anticipated in miniature by the Bach prelude from the Well-Tempered Clavier which has within itself three sections, a prelude, a chorale, and a (double) fugue, while the main theme of the fugue of Bach's Toccata from the sixth partita bears a striking resemblance to the subject of the finale of César Franck's Prélude, Chorale, et Fugue that concludes the program. Other connections of this sort can be heard, consciously or unconsciously, by an attentive listener.
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| Joseph Haydn | Presto in Eb major |
| Variations in F minor |
| J.S. Bach | Prelude in Eb major from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I |
| Toccata from Partita no. 6 in E minor |
| Fantasia and Fugue in G minor (arr. for piano, Franz Liszt) |
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| intermission | |
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| Johannes Brahms | Variations on a Theme of Haydn (St. Antoni Chorale), op. 56
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| César Franck | Prélude, Choral, et Fugue |
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| II | |
| J.S. Bach | Partita no. 1 in Bb major |
| W.A. Mozart | Sonata no. 15 in F major, K. 533 |
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| intermission | |
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| Claude Debussy | "Les sons et les parfums tournent dans
l'air du soir" and |
| La sérénade interrompue, from Préludes, Book I |
| Pagodas from Estampes (Prints) |
| Pour les cinq doigts (For the five fingers), d'après |
| Monsieur Czerny, from Études, Book I |
| D'un cahier d'esquisses (From a sketchbook) |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Sonata no. 28 in A, op. 101 |
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| III | |
| J.S. Bach | Trio Sonata no. 5 in E minor |
| Gustav Mahler | The Lonely One In Autumn |
| Johannes Brahms | 6 Klavierstücke, op. 108 |
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| intermission | |
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| William Byrd | Selections from My Ladye Nevells Booke |
| György Ligeti | Études from Books I and II |
| Maurice Ravel | Gaspard de la nuit |
