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Carte Blanche Concert IV

Found in Translation: Alessio Bax

Sunday, August 8
10:00 a.m., Stent Family Hall, Menlo School
Tickets: $70 adult; $35 student

Rising virtuoso pianist Alessio Bax offers an ambitious three-part recital program in his Music@Menlo debut, expanding on the 2010 festival season theme. Part I demonstrates the timelessness of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, as manifested in the flourishing tradition of Bach keyboard transcriptions (including Bax’s own). Part II adds Italy to this summer’s itinerary with music spanning from the Baroque period to the twentieth century. The program concludes with a closer look at the mutual influence between the composers of Spain and France, complementing the season’s “Spanish Inspirations” program.

*Carte Blanche Concert IV features a lunch-break intermission. A gourmet box lunch may be reserved for $16 per person.

PROGRAM

Part I: Bach Transcribed

Keyboard transcriptions of the music of J. S. Bach by Egon Petri, Alessio Bax, Alexander Siloti, and Ferruccio Busoni

Part II: Italy

Alessandro Marcello (1669–1747)
Concerto for Oboe and Strings (ca. 1717)(transcription by J. S. Bach)

Luciano Berio (1925–2003)
Six Encores (1965–1990)

Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
St. François d’Assise: La prédication aux oiseaux from Deux légendes
(1862–1863)
Après une lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi sonata from Années de pèlerinage: Deuxième année (1838–1861)

Part III: Spain and France

Mateo Albéniz (1755–1831)
Piano Sonata in D Major, op. 13 (bef. 1831)

Isaac Albéniz (1860–1909) / Leopold Godowski (1870–1938)
Tango

Enrique Granados (1867–1916)
“La maja y el ruiseñor” from Goyescas, Book I (1909–1911)

Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
“Alborada del gracioso” from Miroirs (1904–1905)

Enrique Granados
“El amor y la muerte” from Goyescas, Book II (1911–1912)

Maurice Ravel
La Valse (1920)