Bach at St Cecilia's Hall 1978
Seventh of a series of nine concerts entitled 'Bach at St Cecilia's Hall', given mostly at St Cecilia's Hall in the summer of 1978.
20th Century Music for Harpsichord.
Venue:
Kenneth Leighton - harpsichord
Peter Williams - harpsichord
Programme
Two early pieces
Toccata ex tono primo ... Michelangelo Rossi
Jüdentanz ... Hans Neusiedler
Harpsichord transcriptions
Mikrokosmos 6
Diary of a fly; Bulgarian dances no. 5 and 3 ... Bela Bartók
Ludus tonalis
Fuga quinta; Interludium; Fuga sesta ... Paul Hindemith
Prelude and fugue in C ... Dimitri Shostakovich
Improvisations De Profundis opus 76 ... Kenneth Leighton
INTERVAL
Six absences ... Hans Werner Henze
Continuum ... György Ligeti
Two canons for two harpsichords (The Art of Fugue) ... J. S. Bach
Six-part ricercare (The Musical Offering) ... J. S. Bach
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Programme notes by K.L. (Kenneth Leighton) for his Improvisations De Profundis, opus 76 only.
Poster on blue paper giving outline details of all nine concerts. Tickets on sale at the Edinburgh Bookshop, George Street, Edinburgh.
On p.2 of the brochure there is a list of lectures given in support of the concerts as follows: Hans Gal, 'Piano transcriptions of Bach' (20 May at 7 pm); Peter Williams, 'The new organ in the Reid Concert Hall' (21 May at 8 pm); informal disucssion with Wouter Moller of questions arising from the performance of the Cello Suites on authentic instruments (27 May at 10 pm); and Peter Williams, 'The Goldberg Variations' (11 June at 7 pm).
Promoter:
Harpsichords: two Hubbard-Davies harpsichords at modern pitch.