Louis-Claude Daquin (1694–1772)
‘Le Coucou’ (Premier livre de pièces de clavecin) (1735)

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764)
‘Le Rappel des oiseaux’ (Pièces de clavecin) (1724; rev. 1731)

Maurice Emmanuel (1862–1938)
Sonatine No. 2 ‘Pastorale’, Op. 5 (1897)

1. La Caille
2. Le Rossignol
3. Le Coucou
   

Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
‘Oiseaux tristes’ (Miroirs) (1904–5)

Henri Dutilleux (b. 1916)
Blackbird (1950)

Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
Petites esquisses d’oiseaux (1985)

1. Le Rouge-gorge
2. Le Merle noir
3. Le Rouge-gorge
4. La Grive musicienne
5. Le Rouge-gorge
6. L’Alouette des champs
   

interval

David Bruce (b. 1970)
The Shadow of the Blackbird (2011) UK premiere

Olivier Messiaen
La Fauvette des jardins (1970)
or
Catalogue d’oiseaux (1956–58) (selection)

The programme features Homage to Haydn, a set of pieces Matthew Schellhorn commissioned to celebrate the Haydn bicentenary and premiered in the 2009 Cambridge Festival, one of which won a BASCA

Haydn
Andante con variazioni (“Variations in F minor”), Hob. XVII/6

Debussy
Hommage à Haydn

Dukas
Prélude élégiaque

Hahn
Thème varié

d’Indy
Menuel sur le nom d'Haydn

Ravel
Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn

Widor
Fugue

Haydn
Sonata in G major, Hob. XVI: 40 (publ. 1784)

1. Allegretto e innocente
2. Presto

interval

Tim Watts (b. 1979)
Odd Sympathies

Colin Riley (b. 1963)
weave

Cecilia McDowall (b. 1951)
Haydn Seek

Cheryl Frances-Hoad (b. 1980)
Stolen Rhythm

Michael Zev Gordon (b. 1963)
Innocente

Jeremy Thurlow (b. 1967)
Butterfly

Haydn
Divertimento (Sonata) in E flat major, Hob. XVI: 45 (1766)

1. Moderato
2. Andante
3. Finale. Allegro di molto

British pianist Matthew Schellhorn presents an evening recital of Irish contemporary piano music.

Exploring a huge range of idioms, this recital gives a survey of Irish music from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and includes two world premieres of works by Gráinne Mulvey and Nicola LeFanu (daughter of Dame Elizabeth Maconchy).

The programme includes several pieces commissioned for the (AXA) Dublin International Piano Competition, and also makes a special feature of the the music of Ian Wilson, with whom Schellhorn has developed a close working relationship over the last decade.

Ian Wilson (1964–)
Verschwindend
2001, 5'

Siobhán Cleary (1970–)
Chaconne
2008, 5'

Jane O'Leary (1946–)
From the crest of a green wave
1993, 5'

Ed Bennet (1975–)
Gothic
2008, 7'

David Morris (1948–)
Alice
1990, 9'

Gráinne Mulvey (1966–)
new work WORLD PREMIERE
2012, 3'

Raymond Deane (1953–)
After-pieces (1. By the clear dark fountain; 2. The amorous sphinx; 3. Passades; 4. The sphinx unleashed)
1989–90, 14'30

Interval

Elizabeth Maconchy (1907–1994)
Impromptu: Fantasia on one note
1939, 4'

Nicola LeFanu (1947–)
new work WORLD PREMIERE
2012, 10'

Deirdre McKay (1972–)
time, shining
1998, 10'

Donnacha Dennehy (1970–)
Reservoir
2007, 10'

Jennifer Walshe (1974–)
becher
2008, 6'

Ian Wilson
Lim
1998, 18'30