Piano Lunaire | HIGH SUMMER HAYDN 2024: Festival Finale with Adam Sherkin and guests

Piano Lunaire has soft-launched a new summer festival in 2024, both in New York and Toronto: pianist/composer Adam Sherkin presents selections from Haydn’s 52 sonata catalogue, alongside Haydn-inspired contemporary works for keyboard (including his own!)

Included on the third recital of the HIGH SUMMER HAYDN 2024 Festival is the the great C major sonata, Hob. XVI: No. 50 and the D major, No. 51. These pieces assertively display the composer’s quintessential innovation and technical mastery. The first movement includes two passages where “open pedal” is indicated: an effect highly unusual for the late Eighteenth Century.

PROGRAM

Adam Sherkin, solo piano
Stephen Runge, solo piano
Chantelle Grant, mezzo-soprano
Ivan Ivanovich, viola

• HAYDN: Sonata in C major, Hob.XVI: No. 50
• HAYDN: Sonata in D major, Hob.XVI: No. 51
• HAYDN: Scottish Folk Song Arrangemtns (excerpts)
• BENJAMIN: Meditation on Haydn’s Name (1982)
• BENNETT: Impromptu on the Name of Haydn (1982)
• RUBBRA: Invention on the Name of Haydn, Op. 160 (1982)
• BERKELEY: Mazurka, Op. 101 b (1982)
• SHERKIN: Farewell Sonatina *
• BRAHMS: Two songs for alto and viola, Op. 91

* Canadian premiere

? Cash bar throughout the event ?

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