Carte Blanche Concert I

Stephen Prutsman: Bach and Forth

Sunday, July 20
10:30 a.m., Stent Family Hall, Menlo School
Tickets: $70 adult; $35 student

Pianist, composer, and arranger Stephen Prutsman celebrates the timelessness of Johann Sebastian Bach’s music from a unique perspective. “Bach and Forth” shuttles between selected preludes and fugues from Bach’s seminal keyboard primer, The Well-Tempered Clavier (1744), and works by subsequent generations of composers touched by Bach’s inescapable influence.

Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in c-sharp minor
  Jean-Philippe Rameau: La Boiteuse (Lame Girl) (1724)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in g-sharp minor
  Ludwig van Beethoven: Adagio from “Moonlight” Sonata (1801)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in A Major
  Richard Wagner/Franz Liszt: Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde (1867)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in D Major
  Aleksandr Skryabin: Prelude in b minor, op. 22, no. 4 (1897)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in b minor
  Maurice Ravel: Une barque sur l’océan (1904–05)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Gavotte from English Suite No. 6 in d minor
  Arnold Schoenberg: Mussette from Suite, op. 25 (1923)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in B Major

Lunch-Break Intermission*

Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C Major
  Yes: Sound Chaser (1974)†
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in d minor
  Charlie Parker: Ornithology (1946)†
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in G Major
  Purandara Dasa: Govinda†
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in F Major
  Osvaldo Golijov: Levante (2004)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in D Major
  Uzbek traditional: Galdir†
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in f minor
  Walter Hawkins: I’m Goin’ Up a Yonder (1975)†
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in D-flat Major
  Rwandan traditional: Analiza†
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E Major

†Arranged by Stephen Prutsman

*This Carte Blanche Concert features a lunch-break intermission. A gourmet box lunch by Weir & Associates may be reserved for $16 per person.

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