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Thursday 9th July 2020


Multi Piano



Artistes include: MultiPiano Ensemble • Tremolo Percussion Ensemble
András Schiff • Daniel Barenboim • Georg Solti • pianos • British Chamber Orchestra
Gina Bachauer • Jorge Bolet • Jeanne-Marie Darré • Alicia De Larrocha • John Lill • Radu Lupu • Garrick Ohlsson • Bálint Vázsonyi


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Note: latecomers will be admitted at your personal discretion

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Relax with your choice(s) of beverage, in a place of your choosing, alone, or with members of your household or your bubble
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Multi Piano


Programme



Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868)
Overture to the Opera, William Tell (1829)

performed by: 16 hands on four pianos, at
Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, with Gene Moon, conductor



Gustav Theodore Holst (1874-1934)
The Planets Suite
     arranged for eight hands on two pianos and percussion ensemble

performed by MultiPiano Ensemble and Tremolo Percussion Ensemble


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Piano Concerto No 7 Lodron
for three pianos and orchestra, in F major, K242 (1776)
    1 Allegro    fast
    2 Adagio in Bb major    slow
    3 Rondo. Tempo di Minuetto    minuet pace

performed by: András Schiff  •  Daniel Barenboim  •    Georg Solti  •  pianos
and the British Chamber Orchestra



Catherine Rollin (b1970s)
The Grand Finale


performed by 24 students on 12 pianos, at the BAMTA Multiple Piano Festival, 2016


Alexandre Jean Albert Lavignac (1846-1916)
Galop Marche in D major IAL 2  (1905)

performed by previous winners of the
Dublin International Piano Competition



ENCORE

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
arr for 8 pianos by Richard Blackford (b1954, London)

from incidental music for the play Die Ruinen von Athen    The Ruins of Athens  Op 113
Turkish March  (1812)

performed by:
Gina Bachauer  •  Jorge Bolet  •  Jeanne-Marie Darré  •  Alicia De Larrocha 
                                John Lill  •  Radu Lupu  •  Garrick Ohlsson  •  Bálint Vázsonyi

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We open our concert with a popular overture.

We often hear the final part of this music, but here is a chance to hear the full overture to Rossini's Guillaume Tell, played by 16 hands on 4 pianos.

This performance was part of a concert raising funds for Keyboard Scholarships at Austin State University.

So our Multi Piano concert begins, with four pianos:
 
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868)
Overture to the Opera, William Tell (1829)


performed by: 16 hands on four pianos, at a fundraising concert at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, with Gene Moon, conductor
John Noel Roberts • Jean Roberts • James Pitts • Ping-Ting Lan
Geneva Fung • James Faucett • Ron Petti • Mario Ajero



Gustav Theodore Holst (1874-1934)
The Planets Suite
     arranged for eight hands on two pianos and percussion ensemble

performed by MultiPiano Ensemble and Tremolo Percussion Ensemble, during Festival Israel, at the Jerusalem Theater, on 2nd June 2019


Given the concert title Multi Piano we cannot help but offer a succession of spectacular items.

Here is something a little shorter than the overture.

Four pianists on two pianos, with a percussion ensemble of four, play their arrangement of themes from Holst's The Planets.

I have never had the courage to book a percussion concert. This is may be the closest we will get, percussion fans!

Mozart's Concerto for Three Pianos was a lovely find. At last a work specifically written for a Multi Piano concert. But the surprise did not end there.

Have you ever had one of those frustrating days when you haven't got three pianos? I know. It really gets to you.

Mozart knew that feeling too. So the score for this work (see below) includes a version for two pianos which Mozart added in Salzburg in 1780 for himself and another pianist to perform.
Opening bars of the Adagio, showing the 3-piano and 2-piano versions on one page,
Full Score to view on IMSLP
The original 3-piano version of the concerto was written in 1776 as a commission for Countess Antonio Lodron to play with her daughters, Aloysia and Giuseppa. The third part, for the younger daughter, is the least technically demanding.

Wikipedia tells us the first UK performance was at a Queen's Hall Promenade Concert, in September 1907. The pianists then were Henry Wood, York Bowen, Frederick Kiddle, with conductor Henri Verbrugghen.

Our famous pianists are Schiff, Barenboim, and Solti:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto No 7 Lodron
for three pianos and orchestra, in F major, K242 (1776)
1 Allegro    fast
2 Adagio in Bb major    slow
3 Rondo. Tempo di Minuetto    minuet pace

performed by: András Schiff, piano  •  Daniel Barenboim, piano
 Georg Solti, piano  •  British Chamber Orchestra, at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in June 1989


Over 80 music teachers are members of BAMTA, the Boulder Area Music Teachers' Association. Apart from their annual Multiple Piano Festival, members organise events for their students and for their own professional development.

The Multiple Piano Festival  puts 12 grand pianos on the stage. Students audition in pairs at the beginning of November, and then benefit from working with the conductor in the weeks running up to the Festival.

Up to 250 of the members' students take part in the Festival, in a wide range of ways. Money raised at this popular event helps BAMTA's Scholarship Fund which provides means-tested and ability-tested support for music lessons with Association members.

Let's hear their performance of a theme published in piano duet form, which sounds a little like Japanese composer Koji Kondo's music for Nintendo's game franchise The Legend of Zelda.

Catherine Rollin (b1970s)
 The Grand Finale


performed by 24 students on 12 pianos, at the BAMTA Multiple Piano Festival, 2016 (Boulder Area  Music Teachers' Association)

You may be seeing eight pianos on the stage in this video from the 2009  Dublin International Piano Competition. At the risk of leaving you with a sense of anti-climax, I have to say straight away that only two of these pianos will be harmed in the making of this video.

I have chosen Albert Lavignac's Galop Marche  - a pretty lively work which the audience in Dublin clearly enjoy.

Parisian Albert Lavignac was a distinguished music scholar. A pupil at the Paris Conservatory, later he taught there for many years.

He wrote essays on theory. His La Musique et les Musiciens, a treatise on musical theory, includes a famous comparison between keys and their emotional colours (B major "energetic", E minor "sad, agitated" and the like) It was in print throughout his lifetime and for many years after. He also wrote an important early treatise on Wagner.

Lavignac was a minor composer and only this Galop Marche is heard much today. It has been arranged for various combinations, including brass band.

Originally written for two pianos and four hands, for one evening in Dublin it expanded delightfully into a formidable octet of competition-winning pianists and their eighty digits. Here are 16 hands, on two pianos, playing Lavignac's Galop Marche:

Alexandre Jean Albert Lavignac (1846-1916)
Galop Marche in D major IAL 2  (1905)


performed by previous Dublin International Piano Competition winners:

Philippe Cassard (1988) • Pavel Nersessian (1991)
Davide Franceschetti (1994) • Max Levinson (1997)
Alexei Nabioulin (2000) • Antii Siirala (2003)
Romain Descharmes (2006) and featuring
John O'Conor, Artistic Director




Here are the first two pages of the musical score, showing all four players' parts together.
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ENCORE

My encore choice also contains its own encore.

You are about to hear 8 highly respected pianists, with international reputations, come together to perform Beethoven's Turkish March from the incidental music to The Ruins of Athens.

Richard Blackford did not just produce an arrangement for them, he went on to produce a second arrangement. So you will hear both in this recording.

You will reach a moment where the notice Please do not Adjust your Set ought to appear on screen! That's not bad playing, it's what Richard Blackford wrote for them.

Sit back and enjoy the finale to a 1974 concert entitled A Gargantuan Pianistic Extravaganza.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
arr for 8 pianos by Richard Blackford (b1954, London)

from incidental music for the play Die Ruinen von Athen
The Ruins of Athens  Op 113  • Turkish March  (1812)

performed by:
Gina Bachauer  •  Jorge Bolet  •  Jeanne-Marie Darré  •  Alicia De Larrocha  •  John Lill  •  Radu Lupu  •  Garrick Ohlsson  •  Bálint Vázsonyi, at Gargantuan Pianistic Extravaganza, London, 1974
Today's score:  Pianos 31  ♦  Pianists 55 (plus a silent dozen of each in the picture on the left of the page)

Presenter: Peter Steadman
Assisted by: Jane Forrester & Richard Miller


We hope you have enjoyed your Multi Piano  Concert Online


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(someone said "it's time we heard some brass")


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