DIARY
2019 HIGHLIGHTS
January 13 Two-piano recital with Ludovico Troncanetti, Teatro Maria Caniglia, Sulmona, Italy
ARENSKY Suite no. 1, opus 15
RAKHMANINOV Suite no. 2, opus 17
RAKHMANINOV Symphonic Dances, opus 45
January 15 Liederabend, Lancaster Hall Hotel, London
SCHUBERT Mignons Gesang, D321; Du bist die Ruh’, D776
LISZT Freudvoll und leidvoll, S280ii; Die Lorelei, S273iv
R. STRAUSS Schlechtes Wetter, opus 69/5; Meinem Kinde, opus 37/3; Heimliche Aufforderung, opus 27/3 (with Caroline Taylor, soprano)
WAGNER O du mein holder Abendstern
R. STRAUSS Schön sind, doch kalt die Himmelssterne, opus 19/3
MAHLER Rheinlegendchen (with Christian Adolph, bass)
A. MAHLER Laue Sommernacht; Bei dir ist es traut
MAHLER Ich ging mit Lust einen grünen Wald; Frühlingsmorgen (with Gabriella Noble, mezzo-soprano)
January 25 Lecture and Concert, Palazzo Biscari, Catania, Sicily
LISZT Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S154
LISZT Zweiter Mephisto-Walzer
LISZT Réminiscences de l’opéra Norma de Bellini
April 5 Two-piano recital with Ludovico Troncanetti, Tata Theatre, Mumbai, India
MOZART/GRIEG Sonata in C major, KV545
RUBINSTEIN Fantaisie, opus 73
ARENSKY Suite no. 1, opus 15
LISZT Réminiscences de Norma, S655
LISZT Grandes Variations de concert sur un thème des Puritains de Bellini, S654i (World première performance)
April 7 Piano duet recital with Ludovico Troncanetti, Pune, India
MOZART Sonata in F major, KV497
GRIEG Norwegian Dances, opus 35
RUBINSTEIN Sonata in D major, opus 89
LISZT Sonnambula di Bellini – Grande Fantasia di concerto, S627
May 1-2 Two-piano recording for Brilliant Classics with Mattia Ometto, Conservatorio di Padova, Italy
LISZT Eine Faust-Symphonie
LISZT Dante-Symphonie
May 16/17 Jury of Cortot Prize, Ecole normale, Paris
July 7-14 Masterclasses and recital, Schloss Schillingsfürst, Germany
July 21-27 Masterclasses, International Summer Piano Academy, Disentis, Switzerland
August 3 Two pianos, six hands concert, Piano Week, Moreton Hall, Weston Rhyn, Shropshire, with Samantha Ward and Maciej Raginia
GRAINGER Jutish Medley
GRAINGER English Dance
GRAINGER The Warriors
GRAINGER Green Bushes
GRAINGER Zanzibar Boat-Song
August 15-27 Masterclasses and recital, Chetham’s School, Manchester
LISZT Trois Odes funèbres: Les morts; La notte; Le triomphe funèbre du Tasse, S516/516a/517
LISZT Réminiscences de l’opéra Robert le diable de Meyerbeer: Cavatine et Valse infernale, S412a & S413
September 29-30 Two-piano recording for Brilliant Classics with Mattia Ometto, Conservatorio di Padova, Italy
BEETHOVEN/LISZT Symphony no. 9
November 10 Recital, Wigmore Hall, London
MOZART Sonata in A major, KV331
BEETHOVEN Sonata in B flat major, opus 22
LISZT Trois Odes funèbres: Les morts; La notte; Le triomphe funèbre du Tasse, S516/516a/517
LISZT Réminiscences de l’opéra Robert le diable de Meyerbeer: Cavatine et Valse infernale, S412a & S413
November 27 Liszt Day at Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig: lecture and recital
Also forthcoming:
2020
February 27 Recital, Athenæum, London
MOZART Sonata in A major, KV331
BEETHOVEN Sonata in B flat major, opus 22
LISZT Réminiscences de l’opéra Robert le diable de Meyerbeer: Cavatine et Valse infernale, S412a & S413
March 16-28 Member of Jury, Liszt International Piano Competition, Utrecht
2021
June 11-20 Festival, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe: recital, chamber music, masterclasses
2018 HIGHLIGHTS
January 13 Two-piano recital with Ludovico Troncanetti, Accademia Chigiana, Siena
RUBINSTEIN Fantasy in F minor, opus 73
LISZT Concerto pathétique, S258i
LISZT Réminiscences de Don Juan, S656
April 29 Seventieth birthday recital, Wigmore Hall, London, and
June 1 War Memorial Museum, Auckland, New Zealand, and
June 13 Elizabeth Murdoch Recital Hall, Melbourne, and
July 12 Schloss Schillingsfürst, Germany, and
October 24 Auditorio Fundación Beethoven, Buenos Aires
‘LISZT AT THE OPERA’
LISZT Sarabande und Chaconne über Themen aus dem Singspiel Almira von G F Händel, S181; Aïda di G. Verdi – Danza sacra e duetto finale, S436; Fantasie über Themen aus Mozarts Figaro und Don Giovanni, S697; Réminiscences des Huguenots de Meyerbeer – Grande Fantaisie dramatique, S412ii; Les adieux – Rêverie sur un motif de l’opéra Roméo et Juliette de Charles Gounod, S409; Réminiscences de Norma de Bellini – Grande Fantaisie, S394
August 17-23 Chetham’s School, Chester Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Threlfall
TCHAIKOVSKY Concerto no. 2 in G major, opus 44
September 16 Conway Hall, London, with I musicanti
BEETHOVEN Concerto no. 5 arr. Lachner with string quintet
November 13 Bruckner-Saal, Linz, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Petr Altrichter
LISZT De profundis – Psaume instrumental, S121a
2017 HIGHLIGHTS
February 19 Recital, Arizona State University
BEETHOVEN Fifteen Variations and Fugue on an Original Theme in E flat major, opus 35 ‘Eroica’
GRIEG Suite ‘From Holberg’s Time’, opus 40
LISZT Variations on a motif by J. S. Bach ‘Weinen, Klagen’, S180
LISZT Fantasy on themes from Mozart’s Figaro and Don Giovanni, S697
March 11 Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Fritzsch, Brisbane
LISZT Concerto no. 2
LISZT Totentanz
March 18 Recital, Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University, Melbourne, and
March 26 Recital, Sydney Opera House
April 29 Conservatorio di Messina
LISZT Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S154
LISZT Großes Konzertsolo, S176
LISZT Scherzo und Marsch, S177
LISZT Variationen über das Motif von J. S. Bach: ‘Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen’, S180
LISZT Aïda di Giuseppe Verdi – Danza sacra e duetto finale, S436
LISZT Zweiter Mephisto-Walzer, S515
April 23 Recital, Haddington, Scotland
BEETHOVEN Fifteen Variations and Fugue on an Original Theme in E flat major, opus 35 ‘Eroica’
GRIEG Suite ‘From Holberg’s Time’, opus 40
LISZT Variations on a motif by J. S. Bach ‘Weinen, Klagen’, S180
LISZT Fantasy on themes from Mozart’s Figaro and Don Giovanni, S697
May 4 Recital, St Peter’s, Eaton Square, London
MOZART Sonata in A major, KV331
GRIEG Sonata in E minor, opus 7
LISZT Sarabande und Chaconne über Themen aus dem Singspiel Almira von G F Händel, S181
RAKHMANINOV Sonata no. 1 in D minor, opus 28
May 25 Recording and performance, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London: LISZT Elegy for cor anglais, piano, harp and harmonium, w Nicholas Daniel, oboe first performance
July 8 Dulwich Symphony Orchestra, Leigh O’Hara, All Saints’, West Dulwich
RAKHMANINOV Concerto no. 3 in D minor, opus 30, Dulwich Symphony Orchestra,
July 12 Liszt Festival, Schloss Schillingsfürst, Germany – Liederabend with soprano Margriet Buchberger
LISZT Im Rhein, S272iii; Die Loreley, S273iv; Der Fischerknabe, S229ii/1; Ihr Glocken von Marling, S328; Es war ein König in Thule, S278ii; Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh’, S306ii; Jugendglück, S323ii; Freudvoll und leidvoll, S280ii; Der du von dem Himmel bist, S279ii; Du bist wie eine Blume, S279ii; Vergiftet sind meine Lieder S289iii; Es rauschen die Winde, S294ii; Bist du!, S277ii; Nimm einen Strahl der Sonne, S310ii; Es muss ein Wunderbares sein, S314; O lieb, S298ii
August 20 Chetham’s School, Manchester, Stockport Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Threlfall
BEETHOVEN Concerto no. 5 in E flat major, opus 73
October 1 Liszt Festival, Cordoba Mosque, Spain, Festival Orchestra
1 LISZT Concerto for piano and string orchestra ‘Malédiction’
October 19 Recording three short films illustrating LISZT Années de pèlerinage II, Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht
November 8-10 Recording for Hyperion, Potton Hall, Suffolk: LISZT CD 100
LISZT Magyar Rapszodiák – Rapsodies hongroises – Ungarische Rhapsodien No. 23 in C sharp minor ‘Rêves et fantaisies’, S242/23; Preludio funebre, S205b; La lugubre gondola [2nd draft], S199a/ii; Dritter Mephisto-Walzer [1st draft], S215a; Bülow-Marsch [1st draft], S229b; Dem Andenken Petöfis [revised version], S195ii; Den Schutz-Engeln (Angelus) [1st version, 1st sketch], S162a/i; Den Zypressen der Villa d’Este I [1st version], S162b/1; Album-Leaf ‘Aus dem Mephisto-Walzer’, S167m/2; Danse des sylphes de La damnation de Faust de Hector Berlioz [1st version], S474a; Maometto II de Rossini – Fantaisie, S421b; Album-Leaf: ‘Düsseldorf Preludio’, S163f/2; Album-Leaf: ‘Ave Maria’, S164q; Album-Leaf: ‘Dublin’, S164r; Album-Leaf: ‘An die Künstler I’, S166t/1; Album-Leaf: ‘An die Künstler II’, S166t/2; Largo en si mineur, S692p/1; Essai sur l’indifference, S692p/2; Klavierstück in Es-Moll, S692n; Kavallerie-Geschwindmarsch, S460
November 19 Recital, Arezzo, Italy
BEETHOVEN Fifteen Variations and Fugue on an Original Theme in E flat major, opus 35 ‘Eroica’
LISZT Großes Konzertsolo, S176
LISZT Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S154
LISZT Légendes, S176