THE ANCIENT AND THE NEW
Monday 26th September 2022, 8.30pm
Oratorio di San Filippo Neri
Maria Grazia Bellocchio piano
Maria Grazia Bellocchio is not only an excellent pianist: she is also a constantly expanding laboratory of ideas. Her most recent “creation” is entitled Aphorisms and revolves around one of the monuments of the second half of the 20th century, Játékok (Games), by György Kurtág: a living collection of album sheets, memories, transcriptions, dedications and improvisations. And just as if the Hungarian composer’s “games” were a tree, the recital grafts the branches generated by its lymph onto the main trunk: Couperin, Scarlatti, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Bach… The result is an infinite play of mirrors.
François Couperin
Prelude I, Prelude II, Prelude III, Prelude IV
from “L’art de toucher le clavecin”
György Kurtág
Perpetuum mobile (objet trouvé)
…eine Blume für Ulrike Schuster…
Play with Infinity
Pen Drawing [Valediction to Erzsébet Schaár]
Fifths (3/a, 3/b)
Fancifully (quiet talk with the devil)
Hommage à Domenico Scarlatti
from Játékok
Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in D minor, K.32
György Kurtág
Bells for Margit Mándy
Bell-fanfare for Sándor Veress
Flowers we are…
Grassblades in memory of Klára Martyn
Hommage à Borsody László (Harmonica)
Hommage à Schubert
from Játékok
Franz Schubert
Ungarische Melodie, D.817
György Kurtág
In memoriam György Szoltsányi
Shadow-play (3)
Hommage à Ránki György
Waltz (Hommage à Shostakovich)
from Játékok
Dmitri Shostakovich
Prelude in C sharp minor, Op. 34 No. 10
from 21 Preludes, Op.34
György Kurtág
In dark days – for Ferenc Farkas
Hommage à Berény i Ferenc 70
Ligatura for Ligeti
Hommage à Tchaikovsky
from Játékok
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
October: Autumn’s Song
from The Seasons, Op.37b
György Kurtág
Antiphony in F-sharp; Obstinate A flat
Doina
Fanfare to Judit Maros’ wedding
Les adieux (in Janáčeks manier)
from Játékok
Leoš Janáček
On an Overgrown Path: n.5 “They chattered like swallows”
György Kurtág
Second strictly personal letter to András Szöllösy on his 85th birthday
Reticent Question
Waltz
Claudia – Litaneien …
Ligatura x
Hommage à J. S. B.
from Játékok
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sarabande
from French Suite No.1 in D minor, BWV 812
György Kurtág
Ligatura y
from Játékok
François Couperin
Prelude V, Prelude VI, Prelude VII, Prelude VIII
from L’art de toucher le clavecin
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Oratorio di San Filippo Neri
Via Manzoni, 5
Bologna