1.
16th April, 7:30 pm, BNR, Concert
Studio
György Kurtág (b. 1926, Hungary):
Eight
Excerpts from Games (Játékok) Volume I & III
[work
in progress, started in 1973]
Prelude
& Waltz in C (I); Galopp (I); Boisterous Csárdás (I);
Portrait (I); Hommage à Varése (III); Hommage à Bartók (I);
Flowers we
are…
(I); Hommage à Ferenc Farkas (I)
Sándor
Szokolay
(1931 – 2013, Hungary):
Four
12-Tone Exercises on Motives of the Hamlet
Opera (1968) *
[based
on William Shakespeare's drama]
1. Monolog Theme
2. Unisono
3. Valse / Séries & Mirror
4. Theme & Canon
Blood Wedding (Vérnász)
Suite
for Piano in Two Movements (Op. 52/a, 1966/1997) *
[after the
homonymous opera based on F. G. Lorca 's drama]
Béla Bartók (1881 – 1945, Hungary):
Excerpts
from Mikrokosmos (Sz. 107, BB 105, 1926–39)
Book II – V
58. In Oriental Style (II); 47. County
Fair (II);
109. From the Island of Bali
(IV); 142. From the Diary of a Fly
(VI);
139. Merry Andrew (V); 84. Merriment
(III)
Seven
Sketches Op. 9b (Sz. 44, BB 54, 1908–10)
1. Andante con moto (Portrait of a Girl);
2. Commodo (Seesaw...); 3. Lento; 4. Non troppo lento;
5. Andante rubato (Romanian Folk Song);
6. Allegretto (In Wallachian Style); 7. Poco lento
György
Geszler (1913 – 1998, Hungary):
Humming-Top from Two Machine-Etudes
(1933) *
Ernő
Dohnányi
(1877 – 1960, Hungary):
Pastorale on a Hungarian Christmas
Song (WoO, 1920)
Rhapsody (Op. 11, No. 2, fis
moll, 1902)
Leó Weiner (1885 – 1960, Hungary):
Excerpt from Divertimento
No. 1 (Old Hungarian Dances Op. 20,
1923)
[piano
version, originally written for string orchestra]
A Good
Csardas
(Jó alapos csárdás)
Three
Hungarian Rural Dances (1941)
Fox
Dance (Róka-Tánc)
Ronde of the
Town of Marosszek
(Marosszéki keringő)
Peasants Dance (Csűrdöngölő)
* * *
Claude
Debussy
(1862 – 1918, France):
The Little Nigar (Le petit nègre, L. 114, 1908)
Children's Corner (Le coin des enfants, L. 113, 1908)
Doctor
Gradus ad Parnassum
Jimbo's
Lullaby
(Berceuse des éléphants)
Serenade
for the Doll (Sérénade à la poupée)
The Snow is
Dancing
(La neige danse)
The Little
Shepherd
(Le petit berger)
Golliwog's
Kake-Walk
(La marche de la poupée de chiffon)
Éric Satie (1866 – 1925, France):
Gnossienne No. 3 (1890)
Gymnopédie No. 1(1888)
Je te veux / Valse (1897/1903)
Gnossienne No. 1 (1890)
Francis
Poulenc
(1899 – 1963, France):
Three Pieces (Trois pièces, FP 48, 1918/1928)
Pastorale
Hymne
Toccata
Balázs Szokolay (Hungary) – piano
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