Returning to the Festival after over a decade, pianist Inon Barnatan invites us on a journey through the history of his instrument, winding his way through different eras and styles. From Baroque dance to the great variation cycles, through the music of today and the kaleidoscopic works of Ligeti and Barber, this recital ascends to the heights of Romanticism, culminating with Brahms’ “Handel Variations.”
Johann Sebastian Bach, Toccata in E minor, BWV 914
George Frideric Handel, Allemande from the Suite in E major, HWV 430
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Courante from the Suite in A minor
François Couperin, L’Atalante
Maurice Ravel, Rigaudon from Le Tombeau de Couperin
Thomas Adès, Blanca Variations
György Ligeti, Musica Ricercata Nos 11 and 10
Samuel Barber, Fugue from the Sonata in E-flat minor
Johann Sebastian Bach/Sergei Rachmaninoff, Suite from the Third Violin Partita
Johannes Brahms, Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24