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BathFrom the 1994 Bath International Festival
Presented by Chris de Souza
Produced by Judith Roles

1 tx 5/06/94
Joanna MacGregor (piano)

Bach: French Suite in G major, BWV816
Conlon Nancarrow: Prelude and Blues
Ravel: Miroirs
Gershwin/Michael Finnissy: Nashville Nightingale
John Woolrich: Piano Books 3 & 4 (world premiere)
Chick Corea: Children’s Songs
Bartok: Sonata

2 tx 9/06/94
Joanna MacGregor (piano)

Bach: Pieces from the Anna Magdalena Notebook
Woolrich: Piano Books 1 & 2
Satie: Gnossiennes 1 & 5
Gymnopedies 1 & 3
Gorecki: Piano Sonata No.1Thelonius Monk, arr. MacGregor: Round Midnight and Monk’s Point
Nina Simone, arr. MacGregor: Good Bait

3 tx live 8/06/94
Goldberg Ensemble, Malcolm Layfield (conductor),Virginia Black (harpsichord)

Mozart: Divertimento in F, K318
Finzi: Romance
Bach: Harpsichord Concerto in D minor, BWV1052

 

Interval Feature: Bathing, Betting and Bed
Historian Kirsten Elliott takes a walk round Bath in the footsteps of Jane Austen, recreating a day in the leisured life of this historic Georgian spa.
Gorecki: Harpsichord Concerto, Op.40
Dvorak: Serenade, Op.22

 

4 tx 12/06/94
Artur Pizarro (piano)

Schumann: Symphonic Studies, Op.13
Liszt: 3 Petrarch Sonnets G161
Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No.2 (1931 version)

5 tx 7/07/94
Steven Isserlis (cello), Melvyn Tan (fortepiano)

Beethoven: 7 Variations on Bei Mannern, welche Liebe fuhlen, WoO46
Beethoven: Cello Sonata in C major, Op102 No.1
Beethoven: 12 Variations on Ein Madchen oder Weibchen, op.66
Schumann: 3 Romances, Op.94
Mendelssohn: Sonata No.2 in D major, Op.58

6 tx 11/07/94
Leon McCawley (piano)

Soler: Sonata in F sharp major, R90
Sonata in D flat major, R88
Mozart: Sonata in C minor, K457
Chopin: Polonaise-Fantaisie, Op.61
Faure: Theme et Variations in C sharp minor, Op.73
Barber: Piano Sonata Op.26

Bath International Festival 1995

Presented by Sarah Walker
Produced by Judith Roles

1 tx 3/05/95
Live From the Guildhall, Bath

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Stefan Asbury
Sarah Leonard (soprano), Mary King (mezzo-soprano), BEAST (Birmingham Electro-Acoustic Sound Theatre)

Takemitsu: Rainspell, for flute, clarinet, harp, vibraphone and piano
Harvey: Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco
Roger Marsh: Kagura
Stravinsky: 3 Japanese Lyrics
2 Poems of Balmont

Interval Feature: Adam Mars-Jones on Utopias
Harvey: One Evening ( UK premiere)
Boulez: Derive I

2 tx 4/6/95 Bath Festival Ensemble
Jon Kimura Parker (piano), Pascal Devoyon (piano), Joshua Bell (violin), Pamela Frank (violin), Tabea Zimmerman (viola), Steven Isserlis (cello)

Mozart: Duo for violin and viola
Faure: Piano Quartet No.2 in G minor, Op.45
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat, Op.44

3 tx 6/6/95 Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields
Conducted by Sir Neville Marriner
Jon Kimura Parker (piano), Joshua Bell (violin), Steven Isserlis (piano)

Harvey: Fanfare for Utopia (world premiere)
Mozart: Symphony No.35 in D (Haffner)
Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Op.56
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A major (Italian)

4 Vaal Reefs Choristers
Traditional African music of the 5 ethnic groups represented by the choir

Sacred Choral music in Afrikaans, English, Latin and black languages
Folksongs etc.

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