Ave Christe

Josquin Desprez
(ca. 1440-1521)
Remade for the piano
by Charles Wuorinen b. 1938

Petites Esquisses d'Oiseaux

Le Rouge - gorge (Robin)

Le Merle - noir (Blackbird)

III Le Rouge - gorge (Robin)

IV La Grive - musicienne (Song Thrush)

V  Le Rouge - gorge (Robin)

VI L’Alouette des Champs (Sky Lark)

Olivier Messiaen
(1908-1992)

Theme with Variations in D minor, from the String Sextet in B-flat Major

Johannes Brahms
(1833-1897)

Capriccio on the departure of the beloved brother, BWV 992

I. Arioso. Adagio - A coaxing by his friends to dissuade him from his journey.

II. Andante - A description of various calamities that might overtake him in foreign lands.

III. Adagissimo - An all around lament of the friends.

IV. Here the friends, seeing they cannot alter the brother’s decision, take their leave of him.

V. Allegro poco - Aria of the Posthorn.

VI. Fugue in imitation of the posthorn.

J. S. Bach
(1685-1750)

Variations and Fugue in B-flat on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24

Johannes Brahms
(1833-1897)

Piano Sonata in F Major, Hob. XVI: 23

• [Moderato]
• Adagio
• Finale: Presto

Joseph Haydn
(1732-1809)

Phantasie in C Minor, K. 475

• Adagio- Allegro- Andantino- Piu allegro- Primo tempo

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756-91)

Piano Sonata in A-flat Major, op. 110

• Moderato cantabile molto espressivo
• Allegro molto
• Adagio, ma non troppo
• Fuga. Allegro, ma non troppo

Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770-1827)

Intermission 

Kreisleriana, op. 16

• Ausserst bewegt
• Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch
• Sehr aufgeregt
• Sehr langsam
• Sehr lebhaft
• Sehr langsam
• Sehr rasch
• Schnell und spielend

Robert Schumann
(1810-56)

Piano Sonata in F Minor, op. 2, no. 1

• Allegro
• Adagio
• Menuetto
• Prestissimo

Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770-1827)

Selected Etudes

• No. 13, op. 25, no. 1: Allegro sostenuto
• No. 9, op. 10, no. 9: Allegro, molto agitato
• No. 3, op. 10, no.3: Lento ma non troppo
• No. 22, op. 25, op. 10: Allegro con fuoco

Frederic Chopin
(1810-49)

Frederic Chopin

Kinderszenen, op. 15

• Von fremden Landern und Menschen
• Kuriose Geschichte
• Hasche-Mann
• Bittendes Kind
• Gluckes genug
• Wichtige Begebenheit
• Traumerei
• Am Kamin
• Ritter vom Steckenpferd
• Fast zu Ernst
• Furchtenmachen
• Kind im Einschlummern
• Der Dichter spricht

Robert Schumann
(1810-56)

Piano Sonata no. 7 in B-flat Major, op. 83

• Allegro inquieto- Andantino
• Andante caloroso

Sergei Prokofiev
(1891-1953)

Partita no. 1 in B-flat Major, BWV 825 (1726)

Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750)

Partita no. 2 in C Minor, BWV 826 (1726)

Johann Sebastian Bach

Intermission 

Pictures at an Exhibition (1874)

• Promenade
• The Gnome
• Promenade
• The Old Castle
• Promenade
• The Tuileries
• Bydlo
• Promenade
• Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
• Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle
• Promenade
• The Market at Limoges
• Catacombae: Sepulcrum Romanum
• Con Mortuis in Lingua Mortua
• The Hut on Fowl’s Legs (Baba-Yaga)
• The Great Gate of Kiev

Modest Mussorgsky
(1839-81)

Annees de Pelerinage, premiere annee: Suisse

Franz Liszt
(1811-86)

Intermission

Sonata in F-sharp Minor for Piano, op. 81

Johann Nepomuk Hummel
(1778-1837)

Impromptu in F-sharp Minor, op. 36

Frederic Chopin
(1810-49)

Impromptu in G-flat Major, op. 51

Frederic Chopin

Ballade in A-flat Major, op. 47

Frederic Chopin

Ballade in F Minor, op. 52

Frederic Chopin

Tchaikovsky:  Piano Concerto no. 1 in B-flat Minor

With the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra,which also performed Prokofiev's Symphony no. 5 in B-flat Major and Stravinsky's Scherzo à la russe under the direction of Daniel Hege.

Sonata in C Major, L. 60

• Allegro
• Adagio
• Allegro molto

Franz Joseph Haydn
(1732-1809)

Gaspard de la nuit (1908)

• Ondine. Lent
• Le gibet. Tres lent
• Scarbo. Modere

Maurice Ravel
(1875-1937)

Intermission 

Chaconne in D Minor from Partita, no. 2, for unaccompanied violin

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Trans. Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)

Sonata no. 2 in D Minor, op. 14

• Allegro ma non troppo
• Scherzo: Allegro marcato
• Andante
• Vivace

Sergei Prokofiev
(1891-1953)

The Italian Ground

Orlando Gibbons
(1583-1625)

From The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080

• Contrapunctus no. 1

Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750)

Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903

Johann Sebastian Bach

Sonata in A-flat Major, op. 110

• Moderato cantabile molto espressivo
• Allegro molto
• Adagio ma non troppo
• Fuga: Allegro ma non troppo

Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770-1827)

Intermission 

Sonata in B Minor

• Lento assai
• Allegro energico
• Andante sostenuto
• Allegro energico
• Stretta quasi presto
• Allegro moderato

Franz Liszt
(1811-86)

Chaconne and Twenty-one Variations in G Major

George Frideric Handel
(1685-1759)

Variations and Fugue in E-flat Major, op. 35 (“Eroica”)

Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770-1827)

Intermission 

Aria and Thirty Variations (The Goldberg Variations)

Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750)

Sonata in E Major, op. 109

• Vivace, ma non troppo
• Prestissimo
• Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo

Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770-1827)

Polonaise in C-sharp Minor, op. 26, no. 1

Frederic Chopin
(1810-49)

Grand Fantasy on Polish Airs, op. 13

Frederic Chopin

Intermission 

Nine Bagatelles

• The ghost mazurka
• Aimai-je un reve?
• Forgotten prayers
• Cycle de l’univers
• La belle rouquine
• Pegasus
• This endernight
• Recess in hell
• Circus Galop

William Bolcom
(b. 1938)

Four Etudes, op. 7

Igor Stravinsky
(1882-1971)

Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (from Annees de Pelerinage, II)

Franz Liszt
(1811-86)

Tarantella (from Venezia e Napoli)

Franz Liszt

Sonata no. 3 in F minor, op. 5

• Allegro maestoso
• Andante espressivo
• Scherzo: Allegro energico; trio
• Intermezzo (Ruckblick): Andante molto
• Finale: Allegro moderato ma rubato

Johannes Brahms
(1833-97)

Intermission 

Sonata no. 2

• Allegro e moderato
• Sostenuto cantabile
• Presto possible

Rodion Shchedrin
(b. 1932)

Pictures at an Exhibition

• Promenade- Gnomus- Promenade-
• The Old Castle- Promenade-
• Tuileries- Bydlo- Promenade-
• Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks-
• Rich & Poor: Goldenberg and Schmuyle-
• Promenade- The Market Place at Limoges
• Catacombs- The Hut on Fowl’s Legs-
• The Great Gate of Kiev

Modest Mussorgsky
(1839-81)

Four Mazurkas, op. 24

• No. 1 Lento
• No. 2 Allegro non troppo
• No. 3 Moderato con anima
• No. 4 Moderato

Frederic Chopin
(1810-1849)

Three-Page Sonata (1905)

Charles Ives
(1874-1954)

Gnomic Variations (1981)

George Crumb
(b. 1929)

Intermission 

Preludes, Book 1

• II. Voiles
• IX. La serenade interrompue
• Des pas sur la neige

Claude Debussy
(1862-1918)

Sonata in B-flat, op. Posthumous, D. 960

• Molto moderato
• Andante sostenuto
• Scherzo-Allegro vivace con delicatezza
• Allegro ma non troppo

Franz Schubert
(1797-1828)

Sonata in A Minor, op. 143, D. 784

• Allegro giusto
• Andante
• Allegro

Franz Schubert
(1797-1828)

Variations and Fugue on a Theme by G.F. Handel in B-flat Major, op. 24

Johannes Brahms
(1833-1897)

15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, op. 71

Bela Bartok
(1833-1897)

Funerailles

Franz Liszt
(1811-1886)

Valse oubliee No. 2

Franz Liszt

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 15 (“Rakoczy March”)

Franz Liszt

English Suite No.6 in D minor, BWV 811

• Prelude
• Allemande
• Courante
• Sarabande
• Gavotte I
• Gavotte II
• Gigue

Johann Sebastian Bach

(1685-1750)

Suite for Piano, op. 25 (1924)

Arnold Schoenberg

(1874-1951)

Sonata in C Major, Ob. XVI/50

• Allegro
• Adagio
• Allegro molto

Franz Joseph Haydn

(1732-1809)

Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor, op 36 (1931)

• Allegro agitato
• Non allegro
• L’istesso tempo:  allegro molto

Sergei Rachmaninoff

(1873-1943)

Sonata in F Major, K. 332

• Allegro
• Adagio
• Allegro assai

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756-91)

Fantasia in C Major, op. 17

• Durchaus fantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen
• Massig, durchaus energisch
• Langsam getragen, durchweg leise zu halten

Robert Schumann
(1810-56)

Intermission 

Sonata in B Minor, op. 58

• Allegro maestoso
• Scherzo: molto vivace
• Largo
• Finale: presto non tanto

Frederic Chopin
(1810-1849)

Sonata in F Major, K. 494 and K. 533

• Allegro (K. 533)
• Andante (K.533)
• Rondo: Allegretto (K. 494)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756-1791)

Sonata in E-flat Minor, op. 26 (1949)

• Allegro energico
• Allegro vivace e leggiero
• Adagio mesto
• Fuga- Allegro con spirito

Samuel Barber
(1910-1981)

Intermission  

Sonatine (1903-1905)

• Modere
• Mouvement de menuet
• Anime

Maurice Ravel
(1875-1937)

Marzurkas (to be announced

Frederic Chopin
(1810-1849)

Nocturne in D-flat Major, op. 27, no. 2

Frederic Chopin

Scherzo no. 3 in C-sharp Minor, op. 39

Frederic Chopin

Sonata in A Minor, D. 845, op. 42 (1825)

• Moderato
• Andante poco mosso
• Scherzo- Trio
• Rondo: Allegro vivace

Franz Schubert
(1797-1828)

Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, op. 24

Johannes Brahms
(1833-1897)

Scherzo No. 1 in B Minor, op. 20

Frederic Chopin
(1810-1849)

Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat Minor, op. 31

Frederic Chopin

Scherzo No. 3 in C-sharp Minor, op. 39

Frederic Chopin

Scherzo No. 4 in E Major, op. 54

Frederic Chopin