2007/08   52nd Season

 Tribute to the     Paul Sacher Foundation  

Mon 21, 6.00 Wigmore Hall Talk Robert Piencikowski

Mon 21, 7.30 Wigmore Hall Recital Peter O’Hagan    solo piano

 Messiaen Quatre études de rythme 6.00

Boulez Sonata No 3 7.30

Debussy Les soirs illuminés par l’ardeur du charbon; Pages d’album; Bercéuse heroïique

Boulez Incises

 Messiaen Regard de l’esprit de joie and Le baiser de l’Enfant Jésus  

(Vingt regards dur l’Enfant Jésus)

Also as an early tribute to Messiaen in his centenary year and including late piano music by his great predecessor, Claude Debussy, and by his most outstanding pupil, Pierre Boulez.  Boulez had a very close connection with Paul Sacher, to whom he dedicated

some of his most important works, and the composer’s manuscripts are now housed in the Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel.

With the permission of Pierre Boulez and the Foundation, this concert provides a rare opportunity to hear the Third Sonata (still a work in progress) in a provisional three-movement form.  The performance of the first movement Antiphonie will be from hand copies of the source material in the Foundation and the second movement Constellation will be played in its original unpublished version.

The concert is presented in association with the Embassy of Switzerland.

Wed 30              St James's Piccadilly : PLG Young Artists at Lunchtime (6 of 13)

1.10pm             Peter Sparks/Matthew Schellhorn  clarinet/piano

                        Programme includes:

Ian Wilson         ***Spilliaert’s Beach (1999)

Nicola LeFanu   Sea Sketches (2007)

Peter Wiegold    Aulos (2007

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