Events

The Society's President Dr Leslie Howard, AM is pleased to offer masterclasses at his home for six days in January 2009.

128, Norbury Crescent, Norbury, London, UK, SW16 4JZ

www.lesliehowardpianist.com

Members of the Liszt Society can attend [with guests if desired] in an auditory capacity on each day from 2 to 5 starting from Thursday 15th and there will be a performance by the best players at my house from 3pm on Sunday 18th Jan 2009. The classes will be open free to all members of the Liszt Society [of an appropriate standard!], and they are offered free to all piano students from Trinity College of Music.

Listeners will be asked for a small contribution for refreshments.  

Interested members should contact Dr Howard by email at leslie@leslie-howard.com

REPERTOIRE FOR THE JANUARY 2009 MASTERCLASSES

Any original piano music by Liszt based on sacred themes and subjects, with particular attention to the cycle Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S173. Other pieces of Liszt will be considered if necessary, but no transcriptions, fantasies or pieces on national themes will be accepted, and the Sonata is excluded on this occasion.

Other works which may be considered:

Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S154 [1834 single piece]

Préludes et Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S171d [1845-6 set of 8 pieces]

Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S172a [1847 set of 11 pieces]

Prière d’un enfant à son reveille, S171c [first version]

Litanies de Marie, S171e [first version]

Ave Maria, S182

Ave maris stella, S506

Alleluia et Ave Maria d’Arcadelt, S183

In Domum Domini ibimus, S505

O Roma nobilis, S506b

Slavimo Slavno Slaveni, S503

Ave Maria, S504 [D major & D flat major versions]

Inno del Papa, S530

Sancta Dorothea, S187

In festo transfigurationis Domini nostri Jesu Christi, S188

Ave Maria, S545

Benedictus und Offertorium, S501

Stabat Mater, S172b

Urbi et Orbi, S184

Vexilla Regis prodeunt, S185

Les morts, S516

Choräle, S506a

Via Crucis, S504a

3 pieces from St. Elizabeth, S498a & 2 pieces from St. Elizabeth, S693a

2 pieces from Christus, S498b & 2 pieces from Christus, S498c

2 Polonaises from St. Stanislaus, S519

Salve Polonia, S518

San Francesco, S498d

Cantico del sol, S499

Années de pèlerinage III, S163

Cody Green & Leslie Howard

transcription by Liszt for two pianos of

Beethoven

Symphony no 9 in D minor, S 657, "Choral"

Blüthner Piano Centre

Berkeley Square, Mayfair, London W1K 3DB

Wednesday 30 April 2008 at 19:30

Wigmore Hall

Leslie Howard

Beethoven  Six Minuets Wo010

Six variations on an original theme in F op 34

Liszt  Transcendental Studies

Tuesday 8 April 2008 at 7pm

An invitation to a tour of Goldsmiths' Hall

followed by a piano recital by

ASHLEY WASS

(or 6pm for the pre-concert tour)

GOLDSMITHS' HALL

Foster Lane (off Cheapside)

London EC2V 6BN