Mark Robson: Spielfreude

“Spielfreude,” the joy of playing, describes the sheer physical and emotive pleasure of performing at the keyboard. Mark Robson’s recital offers a program that largely takes its cue from this idea, with pieces from a range composers including Ligeti, Glass, Cowell, Messiaen, Aldo Clementi and Ginastera, with premieres by Peter Knell, Hannah Rice and Daniel Rothman. Also featured will be Schoenberg’s Zwei Klavierstücke, Op. 33 in honor of the composer’s 150th birth anniversary.

PROGRAM

Allegro con spirito (nr. 3 from Musica ricercata) – György Ligeti

Etude 2 in C (from Twenty Etudes for Piano) – Philip Glass

Fleeting (nr. 3 from Nine-Ings) – Henry Cowell

Quintes (nr. 5 from Douze Études d’interprétation) – Maurice Ohana

B. A. C. H. – Aldo Clementi

What Bodies Know (‘30 for 30’ commission) – Daniel Rothman

Snapshots ’24 (’30 for 30’ commission) – Peter Knell

Je dors, mais mon coeur veille – Olivier Messiaen
(nr. 19 from Vingt Regards sur L’Enfant-Jésus) 

INTERMISSION

Zwei Klavierstücke, Op. 33 – Arnold Schoenberg
a) Mässig
b) Mässig langsam

Cherubino – Hans Werner Henze
Andante cantabile
Sostenuto
Con allegrezza

Streets of Laredo (nr. 1 from American Ballads) – Roy Harris

Danza de la moza donosa (nr. 2 from Danzas argentinas) – Alberto E. Ginastera

Bulgarian Dance nr. 6 (from Mikrokosmos, Vol. 6) – Béla Bartók

I AM (‘30 for 30’ commission) – Hannah Rice

Canicas e Ilusiones – Francisco Cortés-Álvarez

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