Saturday 22 – Sunday 23 June LUDWIG VAN RNCM Keyboard Weekend
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Beethoven’s sonatas have a crucial story to tell in the history of music for the piano. More than any other composer, Beethoven plays a key role in developing the concept of the piano sonata, adopting the characteristics of the genre as laid out by Mozart and Haydn, yet pushing their boundaries with the imposition of his visionary ideas around thematic and harmonic development.
Such transformations will be laid bare for all to hear in an intensive weekend of talks and performances built around a cycle of the 35 piano sonatas, featuring RNCM students and alumni from the full 40 years of the College’s history, students from Chetham’s School of Music, as well as a headline recital from the acclaimed pianist François-Frédéric Guy.
I hope you will be able to join us for this unique opportunity to hear the entirety of Beethoven’s works for solo piano over just two days.
Graham Scott artistic director Saturday 22 June
10.30am RNCM Concert Hall 2pm RNCM Concert Hall The Complete Sonatas 1 The Complete Sonatas 3
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in F minor Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in F sharp major Op 2 No 1 Op 78 Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in G major Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in F major Op 14 No 2 Op 54 Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in A flat major Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in E major Op 26 Op 14 No 1 Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in E flat major Tickets £7 Op 81a ‘Les Adieux’
Tickets £7 12pm RNCM Concert Hall
The Complete Sonatas 2 3.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in E flat major Lecture with Barry Cooper WoO 47 No 1 Inspiration and Invention in Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in F major Beethoven’s 35 Piano Sonatas Op 10 No 2 Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in G major Manchester University Professor Barry Cooper, Op 49 No 2 a noted authority of Beethoven’s work and Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in A major the editor of a recent scholarly edition of Op 101 Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas, gives an introduction to these important works, pointing Tickets £7 to some of their most remarkable features.
Free admission, no ticket required
5.30pm RNCM Concert Hall Frank Wibaut and Stephen Savage The Complete Sonatas 4
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in C major Op 2 No 3 Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in E flat major Op 31 No 3
Tickets £7 Sunday 23 June
7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall 10.30am RNCM Concert Hall François-Frédéric Guy The Complete Sonatas 6 The Complete Sonatas 5 Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in F minor Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in D major WoO 47 No 2 Op 28 ‘Pastorale’ Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in D major Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in C sharp minor Op 10 No 3 Op 27 No 2 ‘Moonlight’ Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in E minor Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in B flat major Op 90 Op 106 ‘Hammerklavier’ Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in E flat major Op 27 No 1 As our headline artist this weekend, we welcome French pianist François-Frédéric Guy, a musician of Tickets £7 immense interpretative authority and superlative technique. He has spent much of his career 12pm RNCM Concert Hall performing the works of Beethoven, recently completing recordings of the five concertos The Complete Sonatas 7 with Philippe Jordan, and has performed Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in D major worldwide with orchestras such as the Berlin WoO 47 No 3 Symphony, Hallé and London Philharmonic. Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in G major Op 31 No 1 Tickets £17 £14 Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in G minor Op 49 No 1 Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in A flat major Op 110
Tickets £7 2pm RNCM Concert Hall 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall The Complete Sonatas 8 Peter Donohoe, Jin Ju, Ronan O’Hora, Martin Roscoe, Graham Scott Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in C minor The Complete Sonatas 10 Op 10 No 1 Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in G major Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in C minor Op 79 Op 13 ‘Pathetique’ Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in E flat major Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in C major Op 7 Op 53 ‘Waldstein’ Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in F minor Tickets £7 Op 57 ‘Appassionata’
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in E major 3.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room Op 109 Lecture with Barry Cooper Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in C major The Creation of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Op 111
This talk looks at why Beethoven wrote his piano As a fitting finale to our exploration of Beethoven’s sonatas, why they were written at particular keyboard music, we welcome a wealth of talent times, and how he set about composing them. to present a selection of the composer’s piano sonatas. Within tonight’s programme, Ronan Free admission, no ticket required O’Hora performs the Pathétique, the most important of Beethoven’s early sonatas; Martin 5.30pm RNCM Concert Hall Roscoe performs the Waldstein, a landmark in Benjamin Frith, Murray McLachlan the evolution of the genre; and Peter O’Donohoe and Colin Stone performs the last of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, The Complete Sonatas 9 definitely the most mysterious of the sonatas which has prompted much speculation over the years. Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in A major Tickets £17 £14 Op 2 No 2 Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in B flat major Op 22 Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in D minor Op 31 No 2 ‘Tempest’
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