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Louis Lortie, pianist

Programmes

Recital programme suggestions (availability dependant on date of concert)

I BEETHOVEN complete sonatas, cycle in 7 programmes

Already performed by Lortie 1998/9 at Wigmore Hall, London, and scheduled for 1998-2000 for Serate Musicale in Milan, and North York Hall, Toronto, and 1999/2000 at Philharmonie, Berlin.


II CHOPIN for anniversary year 1999 and beyond, 2 programme choices:

a) the complete 27 Etudes, (op.10, op.25 & 3 nouvelles etudes)

b) "Chopin the salon composer"
Impromptu in A flat op.29; Waltz in A flat op.42
Waltz in G flat op.70 no.1; Waltz in D flat op.70 no.3; Impromptu in G flat op.51; Fantasie-impromptu in C sharp minor op.66
Waltz in A minor op.34 no.2; Waltz in E minor op. Posth; Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise op.22
Interval
Allegro de Concert op.46; Adagio in E from op.11 Concerto; Fantasy on Polish Airs (arr Lortie)


III BACH and his influence 19th-20th centuries - for anniversary year 2000 and beyond

BACH/arr BUSONI 2 chorales, including "Nun komm der heiden Heiland"
BACH/arr BRAHMS Chaconne for the left hand
MENDELSSOHN Variations sérieuses
LISZT Variations on Bach’s "Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen"
WAGNER/arr LISZT Excerpts from "Parsifal"
(including Wagner’s version of Bach’s Good Friday chorale, also quoted by Mendelssohn)
WAGNER/arr LORTIE ditto
Interval
KURTAG Jatakok ("Games")
(Kurtag’s fantasy on Bach chorales)


IV BEETHOVEN/SCHUBERT

BEETHOVEN a sonata
Interval
SCHUBERT 2 Lieder
SCHUBERT Wandrerfantasie


V Hungarian programme – 19th-20th centuries

– to include LISZT, BARTOK, KURTAG, LIGETI – from 2000/1



Brahms/Schumann series

Programme 1 - Solo recital

Clara Schumann: Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann op. 20
Johannes Brahms: Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann. op.9
interval
Robert Schumann: Bunte Blätter, op.99(complete)


Programme 2 - recital with cellist Jan Vogler - Complete works for cello and piano by both composers

Brahms: Sonata nr. 1 in e minor op.38
Schumann: Fantasiestucke
Adagio and Allegro, op.70
interval
Schumann: Funf Stucke im Volkston,op.103
Brahms: Sonata nr. 2 in F major, op.99


Programme 3 – with 2nd pianist and voices (soloists tbd)

Schumann: Spanisches Liederspiel, op.74
Schumann:Spanisches Liebes-Lieder op.138
interval
Brahms: Liebeslieder Walzer


Programme 4 - with the Takacs Quartet

Schumann: Piano quintet,op.44
interval
Brahms: Piano quintet, op.34


Programme 5 ( could eventually be added) - with violinist tba

Schumann:movement from the so-called F.A.E. sonata
Brahms: movement from the so-called F.A. E. sonata
Brahms: Sonata nr. 1 in G major, op.78
interval
Schumann: Sonata in a minor, op.105
Brahms: Sonata in d minor, op.108


Programme 6 (could eventually be added) – with 2nd pianist Helene Mercier

Schumann:Canonic etudes for four-hands
Andante and variations, op.46
Brahms: a selection of hungarian dances for four-hands
interval
Brahms: variations on a theme by Schumann
Brahms: variations on a theme by Haydn, op. 56b