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Current solo programmes

Nordic Anniversary 2015: Carl Nielsen (150), Jean Sibelius (150) & Knut Nystedt (100)

Piano music by Carl Nielsen, Jean Sibelius and Knut Nystedt

Twenty Gazes upon the Child Jesus

Olivier Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus (1944) (complete or excerpts)

The Seasons

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, opus 37a (1876)
can from 2016 be combined with:
Peteris Vasks: The Seasons (1980-2004)

Charles Valentin ALKAN

Nocturne nr. 1, opus 22 
Troisième recueil de chants, opus 65 
Toccatina opus 75
 
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Grande Sonate - les quatre âges, opus 33

Musical upheaval in the period 1900-1920

Alban Berg: Sonata in b minor, opus 1, (1908)
Heitor Villa-Lobos: A Prole do Bebê 1 - The Baby's Family 1 (1918)
Charles T. Griffes: Sonata (1918)

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Alexander Skriabin: Poème opus 72, Vers la Flamme (1914)
Claude Debussy: from Images book 1 or 2 (1905-07) 
Carl Nielsen: Theme and variations opus 40 (1916)

Birds & Water

(A selection of the following pieces): 

Louis-Claude Daquin: Le Coucou
Maurice Ravel: Jeux d'eau
Jean-Philippe Rameau: La Poule  &  La Rappel des Oiseaux
Frédéric Chopin: Raindrop Prelude
Robert Schumann: Bird Prophet, from "Wood Scenes" opus 82, no. 7
Peter Tchaikovsky: March: The Lark - from "The Seasons" opus 37b 
Edvard Grieg: Two Lyric Pieces:
  • Little Bird, opus 43, no. 4
  • Brooklet, opus 62, nr. 4

Franz Liszt: Two legends:

  • Saint François d'Assise: la prédication aux oiseaux
  • Saint François de Paule marchant sur les flots

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Claude Debussy: fra Images:
  • Reflets dans l'eau
  • Poissons d'or
Camille Saint-Saëns: The Swan from "Carnival of the Animals", freely transcribed for piano by Leopold Godowsky
Toru Takemitsu: Rain Tree Sketch 1 or 2
Olivier Messiaen:
  • Extracts of "bird-movements" from Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus (1944) or 
  • Petites esquisses d'oiseaux (1985)