Coming Home Again
This program, anchored by J.S. Bach’s beloved Goldberg Variations, explores the idea of arriving back to the start after a long journey. Bach famously opens his Goldberg Variations with an Aria, which returns unaltered at the end, after about forty minutes of exploration; late in his life, Beethoven did the same thing in the finale to his transcendent 30th piano sonata, Opus 109. The concert opens with a mini-suite arranged by Ms. Breen, using two short musical sentences by the living Hungarian composer György Kurtág as a point of symmetry.
Jatekok: Virág az Ember
György Kurtág
1926-present
Novelette in G, op. 17, no. 1 ("Daphnis and Chloe")
Nikolai Medtner
1880-1951
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Scherzo
Felix Mendelssohn
1809-1847
tr. Sergei Rachmaninoff
Jatekok: és mégegyszer... Virág az Ember
György Kurtág
Sonata in E Major, op. 109
Ludwig van Beethoven
1770-1827
Goldberg Variations
Aria
Variatio 1 · a 1 Clav
Variatio 2 · a 1 Clav
Variatio 3 · Canone all’Unisono a 1 Clav
Variatio 4 · a 1 Clav
Variatio 5 · a 1 ovvero 2 Clav
Variatio 6 · Canone alla Seconda a 1 Clav
Variatio 7 · a 1 ovvero 2 Clav
Variatio 8 · a 2 Clav
Variatio 9 · a 1 Clav
Variatio 10 · a 1 Clav
Variatio 11 · a 2 Clav
Variatio 12 · Canone alla Quarta
Variatio 13 · a 2 Clav
Variatio 14 · a 2 Clav
Variatio 15 · Canone alla Quinta a 1 Clav
Variatio 16 · Ouverture a 1 Clav
Variatio 17 · a 2 Clav
Variatio 18 · Canone alla Sesta a 1 Clav
Variatio 19 · a 1 Clav
Variatio 20 · a 2 Clav
Variatio 21 · Canone alla Settima
Variatio 22 · a 1 Clav
Variatio 23 · a 2 Clav
Variatio 24 · Canone all’ Ottava a 1 Clav
Variatio 25 · a 2 Clav
Variatio 26 · a 2 Clav
Variatio 27 · Canone alla Nona a 2 Clav
Variatio 28 · a 2 Clav
Variatio 29 · a 1 ovvero 2 Clav
Variatio 30 · Quodlibet a 1 Clav
Aria
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685-1750