Past Events
Wednesday 19th March 2008 Holywell Music Room, Oxford at 20.00 Recital by Jack Gibbons to include Mozart, Schumann, Debussy, Gibbons, Chopin and Alkan: La chanson de la folle au bord de la mer op. 31/8 and Allegro Barbaro op. 35/5.
Wednesday 25th March 2009 Steinway Hall 44 Marylebone Lane, Westminster, London, W1U 2DB 18.45 pm.
The Alkan Society presents a recital by Thomas Wakefield,
to include music by Liszt: Transcriptions of Schubert,
Bach and Mendelssohn; Nuages grises;
Csárdás macabre and
Alkan: Beethoven Concerto no. 3, 1st
movement, arr. for piano solo (with cadenza by Alkan);
Bourrée d’Auvergne, op. 29; Andante romantique op. 13 no.2; Le chemin de
fer op. 27; Palpitamento; Marche triomphale op. 24/27.
Limited places available for non-Members of the Alkan Society
Thursday 30th April 2009.
Blüthner Piano Centre, 1 Davies Street, Berkeley Square, London W1K
3DB at 19.00. Piano recital by Mark Viner to include
Haydn Sonata Hob. XVI:32, Scriabin Sonata no. 8 op. 68 ('Black
Mass'), Godowsky Etude Macabre and
Alkan Symphony for Solo Piano Op. 39 4 - 7. Information
from
info@bluthner.co.uk
Friday 19th June 2009
Dom Aktera, 7 Yaroslaviv Val, Kiev, Ukraine at 19.00 Piano
recital by Jonathan Powell to include Ives 'Concord'
Sonata, Finnissy Concerto no. 4 for solo piano, music by Konstantin
Silvestrov and
Alkan Symphony for Solo Piano Op. 39 4 - 7. Tickets
30-50 hrivnia.
Monday 6th July 2009
Wigmore Hall, London at 19.30
Piano Recital by Shwan Sebastian to include
Schubert, Brahms, Liszt, Chopin and Alkan Le festin d’Esope op.
39 No. 12, Barcarolle op. 65 no. 6 and first movement ('20 ans') of
Grande sonate op. 33
Tuesday 7th July 2009
Buscot Park Theatre,
Faringdon at 19.00 Recital by Mark Viner
(piano) and Louise Woodgate (soprano) to
include
Alkan Symphony for Solo Piano Op. 39 4 - 7.
Friday 17th July 2009
Pittville Pump Room,
Cheltenham at 17.00. Piano recital by Mark Viner
as part of the Cheltenham Festival. Haydn
Sonata B minor Hob. XV1:32 - Schumann Etudes Symphoniques Op. 13 -
Alkan Symphony for Solo Piano Op. 39 4 - 7.
Sunday 19th July 2009
Holywell Music
Room, Holywell St., Oxford at 20.00. Piano recital by
Jack Gibbons: Alkan, Ouverture op. 39 no. 11, Symphonie op. 39 nos. 4-7,
Concerto op. 39 8-10.
Wednesday 29th July
2009
Holywell Music
Room, Holywell St., Oxford
at 20.00. Piano recital by Jack Gibbons,
to include Debussy, Gibbons, Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin,
Ravel, Gershwin and Alkan: Marche Triomphale op. 26.
Sunday August 2nd
St. Nicholas' Church, Market Place, Abingdon
at 15.00.
Piano recital by Mark Viner to include
Schumann Etudes Symphoniques Op.13, Liszt Consolation No.3 and
Alkan Symphony Op.39 4 - 7.
Friday 28th
August 2009
Holywell Music
Room, Holywell St., Oxford
at 20.00.
Piano recital by Jack Gibbons; 'Farewell Piano
Party' to include Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Gibbons, Chopin,
Liszt, Gershwin, Alkan, and audience requests.
Saturday 5th September 2009. Liszt
Museum Budapest Piano recital by Thomas Kamieniak,
to include Alkan
Morte
op. 15 no. 3
and
Le Tambour bat aux champs, op. 50 no. 2.
Thursday 1st October ,
The Forge,
Camden, London,
at 19.00. Recital by Rohan de Saram ('cello) and
Jonathan
Powell: Alkan Sonate de
Concert, op. 47
and Mendelssohn, Cello sonata no. 2.
Wednesday 7th October 2009.
Congress Hall,
Levoca, Slovakia, 19.00 as part of the 'Indian Summer in
Levoca' Festival. Recital by Rohan de Saram (cello) and
Jonathan Powell (piano) to include Mendelssohn, Martinu and Alkan Sonate de
Concert, op. 47.
Saturday 10th October 2009
Dardanelles Summerhouse, Markusovce, Slovakia 15.00
as part of the 'Indian Summer in
Levoca' Festival. Recital by Tomasz Kamieniak (piano)
to include Liszt; transcriptions of Mendelssohn lieder: Haydn
Sonata in g minor: and Alkan
Ouverture op. 39 no. 11; Morte
op. 15 no. 3; Le Tambour bat aux champs, op. 50 no. 2
Thursday 22nd October
2009
Lord Rhodes Room, Royal Northern College of Music, 18.30
Lloyd Buck plays the first movement of Alkan Concerto for Solo
Piano, op. 39 no. 8. Free admission.
Friday 13 November 2009
Wigmore Hall, London
at 19.30 Piano recital by
Marc-André Hamelin to include Haydn, Mozart, Liszt, Fauré, Alkan
Symphonie for Solo Piano
op. 39, 4-7. To be preceded at 18.00 by a talk by Annette Moreau on
the Alkan Symphonie.
Wednesday 18
November 2009 Steinway and
Son, 44 Marylebone Lane London at 18.45.
Piano recital by
Leslie Howard : Liszt: Années
de
pčlerinage
III, S. 163 nos 1-4, and
Alkan Symphony Op.39 4 - 7.
Presented jointly by the Liszt Society and the Alkan Society.
Priority booking for members of the Liszt Society and the Alkan Society.
Wednesday 9th November 2009
House of Actors, Yaroslaviv Val, Kiev, Ukraine at
19.00 Piano recital by Tomasz Kamieniak to include Chopin, Wieniawski
and Alkan: Concerto for Solo Piano op. 39, 8-10.
e-mail for
details.
Tuesday 19th January 2010
Peacock Room,
Trinity College of Music, London at 19.30
Piano recital by
Karl Lutchmayer, Sam Liu, Aleks Szram, and Douglas Finch. Charles-Valentin
Alkan's Grande sonate: 'Les quatre âges' (Grand sonata: The Four Ages)
with 'contemporary extensions'. Admission free.
Sunday 7th February 2010
L'Archipel, Paris
at 18.00 Piano
recital by Jonathan Powell to include Ullman, Feinberg,
Blumenfeld, Goldenweiser, Mahler arr. Friedmann and Alkan: Symphonie
pour piano seul op. 39 4-7.
Tuesday 9th February 2010
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London at 19.30 Piano
recital by Huseyin Sermet to include Chopin, Liszt and
Alkan Trois petites fantaisies op. 41.
Friday 12th February 2010
St. Barnabas Church, Pitshanger Lane, North
Ealing, London
at 13.00.
Piano recital by Mark Viner
to include Beethoven: Sonata Op.26 and Alkan: Douze etudes dans les
tons majeurs Op.35; X). "Chant d'amour - Chant de mort"- XI). "Posement" -
XII). "Technique des Octaves"
Saturday 20th Febuary 2010
Auditorium,
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
2010 Alkan Competition and
Recital. 14.30: Competition. 19.30 Recital by Tom Wakefield
to
include Chopin, Liszt and Alkan. Entrance free (retiring
collection).