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Andrew Brownell turns the spotlight on music of the late-18th century which was popular in its day but has fallen out of the repertoire. A sonata by Clementi, the so-called "father of the pianoforte"; Dussek's The Sufferings of the Queen of France; and a sonata by Schroeter, a protégé of JC Bach and early advocate of the piano, round out a programme focussed on English classicism.
Craig Sheppard inaugurates the new acquisition of the Steinway Model ‘O’ owned by the Speyer family with a programme of French music.
Apolline Khou and Yoel Rubin invite you to join them for a concert of contemplative and heartwarming pieces for cello and piano. The programme includes songs, transcriptions and sonatas by Bach, Schubert, Brahms, Dvořák and Rachmaninov.
Michel Pignolet de Montéclair’s Sérénades offer a vivid snapshot of the musical life at the French court, capturing the festive atmosphere of royal balls through three distinct suites. With its elegant mix of recorders, oboes, and strings, this programme features his charming airs tendres and airs champêtres, evoking the grandeur and elegance of courtly occasions.
Danilo Mascetti makes his debut at the Cobbe Collection, performing Beethoven's majestic Diabelli Variations Op. 120 on the 1823 Viennese Fortepiano by Nannette Streicher.
Students from the Vocal and Historical Departments of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama join forces in a programme of chamber cantatas and instrumental music from the late-17th and early-18th centuries, performing alongside the acclaimed keyboard player, James Johnstone.
A programme of Italian baroque solos, sonatas and concertos from the 17th and 18th centuries by students from the Historical Performance Faculty at the Royal College of Music.
Ashley Solomon and Steven Devine explore works for flute and keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach and four of his sons including the eldest and youngest members of his family. The programme includes solos and sonatas by JS Bach, JC Bach, JCF Bach. CPE Bach and WF Bach.
On their third visit to Hatchlands, students from the Royal Irish Academy of Music present a varied programme of keyboard and chamber music spanning four centuries.
Composer/pianist Matthew King will explain the Moonlight Sonata’s background and perform it on the Nannette Streicher fortepiano
Fryderyk Chopin
Pianist Elena Toponogova returns with a delightful programme featuring music by Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and Medtner
The London-based, Russian pianist Alexander Karpeyev presents a selection of Chopin's nocturnes, waltzes and impromptus juxtaposed with works in the same genres by Gabriel Fauré
Three of the UKs foremost musicians gather together to present the chamber-music of Johannes Brahms
The concert program will present three pieces by two generations of the Bach family
Yulia’s recital includes works by Tchaikovsky, Glier, Rachmaninov, Scriabin and Shostakovich
Instrumental Olympics - a celebration of instrumental virtuosity and versatility from two of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi and Telemann
Lyrical and complex music of the Anglo-Irish composer, Thomas Roseingrave, as well as his contemporary, George Frideric Handel
Nathaniel Mander is delighted to return to perform at Hatchlands, this time in a dramatic and romantic programme of music by Mozart and Haydn including Haydn’s strikingly personal variations in F minor
Students from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Historical Performance Department t present a programme of 17th and 18th century repertoire.
Works by the trailblazing women composers Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre and Augusta Holmès
Pianist Lucas Wong guides listeners from the haunting depths of darkness in Mozart's Fantasy in C minor and Taubert's rarely performed Piano Sonata No 2,‘Grande’, ultimately offering a glimmer of hope through a selection of Mendelssohn's ‘Songs Without Words’, concluding with the enchanting Spring Song.
Beethoven - Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 12
E Bloch - ‘Nigun’ from Baal Schem
Debussy - La Plus Que Lente (arr. Roques)
Faure - Berceuse, Op. 16
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Tribute to Jean-Philippe Rameau. This programme offers an intimate portrait of his music, enriched by composers from within his family, including works by his son, Claude-Francois, and his nephew, Lazare
Brahms - Sonata for Viola and Piano Op.120 No.2 in E flat Major
Manuel De Falla - Seven Spanish Songs
York Bowen - Phantasy for Viola and Piano
Daniel will play piano sonatas by Beethoven on the fortepiano by Nanette Streicher, a close friend of the composer
A selection of music in the baroque, classical and romantic styles, which includes works by J.S. Bach (Prelude and Fugue), Schumann (Kreisleriana), Beethoven (Sonata) and Chopin (Mazurkas)
Joseph will return to perform a selection of pieces by Chopin, including groups of
Nocturnes and Waltzes, the lyrically expressive Ballade No. 3 in A Flat Op. 47 and dramatic Fantasy in F minor Op. 49
Students from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Historical Performance Department present a programme of 17th and 18th century repertoire
The Academy Baroque Soloists will perform a colourful selection of chamber music taken from Telemann’s dazzling baroque masterpiece Essercizii Musici
A concert to celebrate the musical legacy of Oliver Davies and Henry Roche, including music by Moscheles and Mendelssohn’s C minor piano trio
This programme entitled “Les Nations”, celebrates chamber music from across Europe for wind, strings and continuo
Adrian Butterfield and Geoffrey Govier continue their cycle of Brahms's violin sonatas with the Sonata in D minor, op 108 & the Scherzo in C minor. The programme will also include Schumann's passionate Sonata in A minor op. 105
“Mozart’s Hero”: JC Bach, Mozart, and the Square Piano - an instrument sometimes considered a bit of a Cinderella meets her Prince Charming, thanks to Zumpe’s Glass Slipper
The acclaimed pianist Ingrid Jacoby presents Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” on the Becker piano
This delightful programme presents music from the Golden Age in Dublin. Handel, Giordani, Cogan, Moscheles, Thomas Moore; sonatas, dances, songs, arrangements of orchestral music, baroque, classical, traditional Irish and everything in between.
Winner of the Leeds Piano Competition in 2021, pianist Alim Beisembayev will play a selection of works by Beethoven and Haydn
Music by Sheidemann, Froberger, Fischer, Buxtehude, JS Bach and CPE Bach
Music on the Becker piano by Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninov and Nikolai Medtner
Matthew King is a composer, pianist and professor of composition at Guildhall School of Music. He will be playing pieces by Schubert and Chopin
An autumn bouquet of works by two brilliant yet little-known French female composers, Hélène de Montgeroult and the mysterious Mme de Villeblanche
Bach and Wolf: historical keyboardist Avinoam Shalev traces a tight musical bond between the Bach family and Weimar court composer EW Wolf, performing on three instruments
Haydn piano sonatas
This programme celebrates English 18th century chamber music for wind and strings
Music by Telemann, Purcell, Couperin and Jacquet de la Guerre
Repertoire for flute and obbligato harpsichord by members of the Bach family including JS Bach, JCF Bach, CPE Bach and WF Bach
Charmant et agréable
A Collection of 19th and 20th century Art Songs from St Petersburg to Paris on the J. Becker piano
Music by Fauré, Chopin, Debussy, Elgar and Ravel
Marais - Sonnerie de Ste. Geneviève du Mont
Marais - Sonate à la Maresienne
d’Anglebert - Chaconne Rondeau
Leclair - Sonata in D, Op. 9, No. 3
Bach and Handel
Beethoven
Sonata in C minor, Op. 10, No.1
Sonata in D, Op. 10, No.3
Schubert and Liszt
Music by Domenico Scarlatti and Girolamo Frescobaldi on the Iberian clavichord and Zenti harpsichord
Grieg - Stimmungen, Op. 73
Schumann - Arabesque in C, Op. 18
Schumann - Fantasie in C, Op. 17
Brahms
Violin sonata No.1 in G
Violin sonata No.2 in A
Mozart - Symphony in D, K. 19
Mozart - Rondo in A minor, K. 511
Haydn - String Quartet in C, Op. 1, No. 6
Haydn - Keyboard Concerto in D
Guildhall Cantata Ensemble returns to Hatchlands with this programme of cantatas for voice, virtuoso violin and continuo by Bach and his predecessors
Ignaz Joseph Pleyel - Trio in E minor, B. 435
Leopold Koželuch - Sonata in F minor, Op. 14, No.1
Joseph Haydn - Trio in F major, Hob XV:17
Marais - Sonnerie de Ste. Geneviève du Mont
d’Anglebert - Chaconne Rondeau
Leclair - Sonata in D, Op. 9, No. 3
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Beethoven - Sonata in E flat, Op. 7, the ‘Grand Sonata‘
Chopin - Sonata in B minor, Op. 58
Schwencke - Sonata in B flat
Wagenseil - Vatican Bells
Löhlein - Sonata in D minor
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Zipoli - Suite No. 2 in G minor
Haydn - Sonata in C, Hob. XVI:48
Haydn - Sonata in E flat, Hob XVI:52
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Bach - Choral; Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BWV 742
Bach - Sinfonia 11 in G minor, BWV 797
Bach - Sinfonia 14 in B flat, BWV 800
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‘18th century Worlds apart’
‘The English and Italian Muses’
Rameau - Airs and Dances
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Beethoven - 7 Variations on Mozart's Bei Männern welche Liebe fühlen
Beethoven - Sonata in C, Op. 102, No. 1
Beethoven - Sonata in D, Op. 102, No. 2
Beethoven - Sonata in A flat, Op. 110
Liszt - Petrarch Sonnets (Années de Pèlerinage, ‘Deuxième Année - Italie’)
Liszt - Rhapsodie Espagnole
Scarlatti - Sonata in A, K113
Rameau - Le Rappel des Oiseaux
Rameau - L’Egyptienne
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JS Bach - Prelude and Fugue in C, BWV 846
JS Bach - Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 865
Wolf - Sonata in D minor
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Couperin - Motets
Charpentier - Les Plaisirs de Versailles
Beethoven - Sonata in A minor, Op. 23
Fauré - Berceuse, Op. 16
Lekeu - Sonata in G (1893)
A programme presenting Chopin’s music as seen through the eyes of Johanna Kinkel (1810-1858), a remarkable poet, composer and revolutionary thinker.
Music from the Bauyn Manuscript
Marchand - Suite in D minor
Bach - Italian Concerto in F, BWV 971
Handel - Suite in B flat, HWV 434
D. Scarlatti - Sonatas
Byrd - Prelude
Galliard - Fantasia
Giles Farnaby - Bonny sweet Robin
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Mozart - Sonata in E flat, K302
Beethoven - Variations on ‘Se vuol ballare’, WoO40
Beethoven - Sonata No.10 in G, Op. 96
Bach - Sonata No.1 in G, BWV 1027
Schumann - Fantasiestücke, Op. 73
Manuel de Falla - Siete Canciones populares Españolas
Chopin - Introduction and Polonaise Brillante, Op. 3
Duphly - La Forqueray
Duphly - La Medée
Duphly - Chaconne
Rameau - Suite in G from Nouvelles Suites de Pieces
Clara Schumann anniversary concert
Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya presents a programme of Mendelssohn, Chopin and Schubert
Couperin - Deuxième Prelude (L’art de toucher le claveçin)
Rameau - Pièces de Claveçin: Suite in D, excerpts
Debussy - 12 Études pour les huit doigts
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Bach - Sonata in C BWV 1033
Bach - Allemande from A minor flute Partita, BWV 1013
Bach - Sonata in A, BWV 1032
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Lunch with Telemann
Charpentier - Les Arts Florissants
Schubert - Sonata in A minor, D845
Liszt - Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este
Kalkbrenner - Selection of Etudes from 25 Grandes Etudes, Op. 143
Kalkbrenner - Variations Brillantes on a Chopin Mazurka
Handel - Sonata à 5 in B flat, HWV 288
Handel - Trio Sonata No.4 in G, HWV 399
Purcell - Chacony in G minor
Bach - Double Concerto in C minor, BWV 1060
Victoria, Albert and the piano:
a recital to celebrate the bicentenaries of Queen Victoria (24 May) and Prince Albert (26 August)
Victoria, Albert and the piano:
a recital to celebrate the bicentenaries of Queen Victoria (24 May) and Prince Albert (26 August)
Couperin - Huitième Ordre in B minor
Bach - French Overture, BWV 831
Bach - Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, BWV 904 Partita in D, BWV 828
Bach - Chaconne from BWV 1004
C.P.E. Bach - Würrtemberg Sonata No.1 in A minor, Wq.49/1
D. Scarlatti - Sonata in C minor, K11
D. Scarlatti - Sonata in B-flat, K545
Beethoven - Sonata in A, Op. 101
Liszt - Transcendental Etudes
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Mendelssohn - Six Preludes and Fugues, Op. 35
J.S. Bach - Partita No. 4 in D, BWV 828
Schubert - Sonata in C minor, D958
Couperin - Ordre VIII in B minor
J.S. Bach - French Ouverture in B minor, BWV 831
Mozart - Sonata in C, K545
Mozart - Variations on ‘Ah vous dirai-je, Maman’, K265
Mozart - Rondo in A minor, K51
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Reger - 3 movements from Sonata in C minor, Op. 139 (1915)
Adolf Busch - Capriccio in A minor (1917)
Elgar - Sonata, Op. 82 (1917)
Brahms - Scherzo in C minor
Schumann - Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor
Schubert - Fantasie in C, D.934
Telemann - Fantasias and Methodical Sonatas for flute and harpsichord
A programme of music by Bach, Handel and Maurice Greene
Chopin
Variations ‘La ci darem la mano’, Op. 2
Polonaise in F sharp minor, Op. 44
Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48, No. 1
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Demons, Gods and Fairies – a Midsummer Celebration
Schumann - Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26
Sibelius - Valse triste, Op. 44
Sibelius - Sonata in F, Op. 12
Students from the Royal College of Music Historical Performance Department will present a programme of music celebrating the glorious music from the time of the Restoration period in England.
Schubert - Sonata in A minor, D784
Schubert - Sonata in B flat, D960
Handel - Overture to Rodelinda, HWV 4564
Arne - Sonata No. 1 in F
Scarlatti - Sonata in D, K491
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Carissimi - Jepthe
Charpentier - Le Reniement de Saint Pierre
Schubert - Die Winterreise, D911
This fourth concert in the series begun by Robert Gibbs and Oliver Davies in 2014 presents two important works which spanned the war but reached performance only in revised form after 1920.
D. Scarlatti - Sonatas, K 24, K 29
Bach - Goldberg Variations, Nos. 14 & 20
WF Bach - Sonata in E at, F5, 3rd movt.
Chopin Rachmaninov Chopin Chopin
Haydn Sonata in G, Hob. XVI:39
Chopin Ballade No.1 in G minor, Op.23
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Schubert - Moments Musicaux, D780
Schubert - Sonata in A minor, D784
Abel - Sonata in D
JC Bach - Sonata in D for keyboard Op. 5, No. 2
Abel - Sonata in G minor
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Sonata in B at, K281
Sonata in A minor, K310
Rondo in A minor, K511
Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas never cease to surprise and inspire. This concert will explore the musical context in which Scarlatti grew up and will be followed by one on October 12th illustrating his legacy.
Handel - Trio Sonata, Op. 5, No.4 in G
Vivaldi - Concerto Madrigalesco, RV129
Pergolesi - Salve Regina in C minor
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Lully - Dream Suite
Couperin - Apothéose de Lully
Rameau - Suite from “Les Boréades”
Bach - Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Haydn - The Mermaid’s Song
Haydn - Recollection
Haydn - A Pastoral Song
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Haydn - Sonata No. 59 in E at, Hob.XVI:49
Brahms - Ballades, Op. 10, Nos. 1 & 2
Chopin - Grande Valse Brillante, Op. 18
Chopin - ChopinPolonaise-Fantaisie, Op. 61
Etude in A at, Op. post.
Scherzo No. 3 in C sharp minor, Op. 39
Prelude in C sharp minor, Op. 45
Ballade No. 4, F minor, Op. 52
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Guildhall Cantata Ensemble present settings of sacred texts by royal composers Charpentier and Couperin for violins, recorders and voices, including a setting of the Miserere by Clérambault and motets by Couperin.
Chopin - Études Op. 10, No. 3, Op. 25, No. 1
Ravel - À la manière de ...Chabrier, Borodine
Chopin - Trois nouvelles études
Chopin - Nocturne in E, Op. 62, No. 2
Ravel - Valses nobles et sentimentales
Chopin - Waltz in A at, Op. 42
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Beethoven - Sonata in E flat, Op. 27, No.1
Chopin - Nocturne in E flat, Op. 55, No.2
Chopin - Sonata in B minor, Op. 58
Beethoven - Sonata in E flat, Op. 27, No.1
Chopin - Nocturne in E flat, Op. 55, No.2
Chopin - Sonata in B minor, Op. 58
Mozart - Variations on "Unser dummer Pöbel meint", K455
GG Ferrari - Sonata in C, Op.10, No.1
Beethoven - 6 Bagatelles, Op.126
Haydn - Sonata in C, Hob.XVI:50
Mendelssohn - Sonata in F
Fauré - Andante, Op.75
Weber - Sonata in C, Op.10, No.6
Saint-Saëns - Sonata No.1 in D minor, Op.75
Gawain Glenton and Silas Wollston
Jonson, set by Farnaby - Alman
Byrd - Tregian’s Ground
Cima - Sonata, (1610)
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Limited availability
Robert Gibbs and Oliver Davies
Granados - Rondalla Aragonesa
Granados - Sonata Movement
Vaughan Williams Fauré - Romance and Pastorale (1915)
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Limited availability
Julia Doyle and Maggie Cole
A varied programme including settings of Shakespeare's lines spanning two centuries, including songs by Arne, Purcell, Haydn, Vaughan Williams, Britten and Quilter
Beethoven Sonata in F minor, Op. 2, No. 1
Beethoven Sonata in A, Op. 2 No. 2
Beethoven Sonata in C, Op. 2, No. 3
Mozart - Allegro in B flat, K400
Mozart - Sonata in B flat, K570
Mozart - Allegro in G minor, K312
Mozart - Sonata in D, K576
Geoffrey Govier gives the last programme in his complete cycle of the Mozart piano sonatas on a late 18th-century piano.
Royal College of Music students from Historical Performance Department perform two outstanding works by Bach
This programme celebrates the craftsmanship of Burkat Shudi, whose harpsichords were admired by Handel and owned by Gainsborough and Frederick the Great.
The Cobbe Collection Trust in collaboration with The Keyboard Charitable Trust
Adrian Bradbury and Oliver Davies are engaged in a project to edit and record the operatic fantasies of Alfredo Piatti, including many unperformed since the cellist’s lifetime.
Nikolai Demidenko’s virtuosity and musicianship has brought him worldwide recognition and engagements with major orchestras and conductors throughout the world.
In this concert The Rautio Trio will precede Mendelssohn’s two great trios with works by JC Bach which are some of the earliest of the genre
Mozart - Fantasia in C minor, K475
Mozart - Sonata in C minor, K457
Mozart - Sonata in F, K533/K494
In the penultimate concert in his cycle of Mozart piano sonatas Geoffrey Govier presents two major mature masterpieces.
Schumann - Papillons, Op. 2
Mendelssohn - Songs without Words, Book 1, Op. 19
W. Sterndale-Bennett - Fantaisie, Op.16 (dedicated to Schumann)
Bach Sonata No. 2 in D, BWV1028
Forqueray La Bouron, La Clément, La Bournonville
Bach Partita in D minor, BWV828
Marais Le Badinage, Le Labyrinthe
Schubert - Sonata in G, D894
Schubert - 13 Variations on a theme by
Schubert - A. Hüttenbrenner, D576
JC Bach - Trio in G, Op.2, No.2
JC Bach - Trio in C, Op.15, No.1
Mendelssohn - Trio in D minor, Op.49
Byrd - Sellinger’s Round
Purcell - Voluntary in G: Wondrous Machine
Jeremiah Clarke - Suite in A
Handel - Concerto No 13 in F ‘The Cuckoo and the Nightingale’, HWV 295
William Russell - Voluntary No.3 in G
Byrd - Sellinger’s Round
Purcell - Voluntary in G: Wondrous Machine
Jeremiah Clarke - Suite in A
Handel - Concerto No 13 in F ‘The Cuckoo and the Nightingale’, HWV 295
William Russell - Voluntary No.3 in G
Clara Schumann - Trio in G minor, Op. 17
Robert Schumann - Trio No.1 in D minor, Op. 63
Danzi - Sonata for piano and clarinet in B flat, Op. 56
Mozart - Adagio in B minor, K540
Danzi - Sonata for piano and horn in E minor, Op. 44
Mozart - Sonata in C, K303
Mozart - Sonata in A, K305
Mozart - Sonata in D, K306
Mozart - Sonata in G, K301
Mozart - Sonata in E minor, K304
Mozart - Sonata in Eb, K302
Carole Cerasi celebrates this year the births of Jacques Duphly (1715) and Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (1665)
Bach - French Suite No.4 in E flat, BWV 815
CPE Bach - Sonata in A minor, Wotq. 50/3
CPE Bach - Rondo in A, Wotq. 58/1
Bach - French Suite No. 5 in G, BWV 816
Beethoven - 32 Variations in C minor, WoO80
Czerny - La Ricordanza, Op. 33
Thalberg - Les soirées de Pausilippe, Op.75, Nos.7 & 8
Liszt - Consolation No. 3 in D flat
Czerny - Sonata No.2 in A minor, Op.13
Georges Antoine - Violin Sonata, Op. 3 (1912–15)
W. Denis-Browne - Pavan (‘To Gratiana, Dancing and Singing’) (1913)
Bax - The Grey Dancer in the Twilight (1915)
Ravel - Trio (1914)
Chopin - Fantasy in F minor, Op. 49
Sibelius - 5 Romantic Pieces, Op. 101
Schumann - Fantasie in C, Op. 17
Due to popular demand a second performance of 1 July programme:
Mozart
Sonata No. 13 in B flat, K333
Sonata No. 11 in A, K331
Mozart
Sonata No. 13 in B flat, K333
Sonata No. 11 in A, K331
Corelli - Sonata in D, Op. 5, No. 1
Bach - Sonata in G for violin & continuo, BWV 1021
Corelli - Sonata in F, Op. 5, No. 10
Bach -Sonata in E, BWV 1016
Marchetto Cara - Per dolor mi bagno il viso
Claudio Veggio - Ricercare di Claudio Veggio
Cavazzoni - Plus ne regres
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Guildhall Cantata Ensemble present a colourful programme of Latin American 18th-century music taken from manuscripts in Peru, Sucre, Lima, Bogota, Quito and Puebla
Schubert - Fantasy in F minor, D940
Mozart - Sonata in C, K521
Mozart Sonata No. 10 in C, K330 Sonata No. 12 in F, K332 Sonata No. 16 in C, K545 Geoffrey Govier gives the fourth programme in his complete cycle of the Mozart piano sonatas on a late 18th-century piano, following a predominantly chronological ordering so that the extraordinary development of this greatest of musical geniuses… Continue reading Geoffrey Govier – piano, Mozart
Brahms - 6 Pieces, Op. 118
Ravel - Sérénade grotesque
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Miroirs
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