Music from the Frederick Collection
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38th Fall Season of the Historical Piano Concerts
Ashburnham Community Church,
New Dawn Arts Center, Ashburnham, MA
Sunday at 3:00 pm, 1 October 2023
piano by Julius Blüthner, Leipzig (1907) |
The Art of Transcription
Pièces de clavecin Renaissance, Book 1 (1909); transcriptions by Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938) 1. Sarabande in E (Nouvelles suites de clavecin, 1727 3. Sarabande) 2. Rigaudon in E (Dardanus, 1739 Act 1, Scene 3) 5. Élégie in e (Pièces de clavecin, 1724 3. Gigue en rondeau) 6. Tambourin in e (Pièces de clavecin, 1724 8. Tambourin) | Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) |
Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C, BWV 564 (1712?); transcr. 1900 by Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) Prelude Tempo moderato – Mæstoso, ma andando Intermezzo Adagio sempre cantando Fuga Moderatamente scherzando, un poco umoristico | Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) |
Variations in d on Corelli's La Folia, Op. 42 (1931) This year marks the sesquicentennial of Rachmaninoff's birth. Tema in d Andante 1. Poco più mosso 2. L'istesso tempo 3. Tempo di minuetto 4. Andante 5. Allegro, ma non tanto 6. L'istesso tempo 7. Vivace 8. Adagio misterioso 9. Un poco più mosso 10. Allegro scherzando 11. Allegro vivace 12. L'istesso tempo 13. Agitato Intermezzo 14. Andante, come prima 15. L'istesso tempo 16. Allegro vivace 17. Meno mosso 18. Allegro con brio 19. Più mosso Agitato 20. Più mosso Coda Andante | Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) |
Petrushka (1910-11; piano transcr. 1921; rev. 1946) 1. Danse Russe 2. Chez Pétrouchka 3. La semaine grasse | Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) |
All concerts start at 3 pm
and run without an intermission.