Carte Blanche Concert III

Gary Graffman: For the Left Hand

Thursday, July 31
8:00 p.m., St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Tickets: $60/$38 adult; $30/$15 student

Prelude Performance
6:00 p.m., St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Free Admission

Despite sustaining an injury to his right hand in 1979, legendary American pianist Gary Graffman has remained active on the world’s concert stages, performing and extending the left-hand piano literature. Following his riveting Music@Menlo debut last season, performing the Korngold Suite for Piano and Strings, Gary Graffman returns with this unique recital of left-hand piano music. The program comprises arrangements of works by Bach, Chopin, and Skryabin, as well as pieces specifically conceived for the left hand alone by leading composers of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.

Aleksandr Skryabin:
Prelude in c-sharp minor, Op. 9, No. 1 (1894)
Nocturne in D-flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2 (1894)
Etude in c-sharp minor, Op. 2, No. 1 (1894) (arr. Jay Reise)

Carl Reinecke: Sonata, Op. 179

Johannes Brahms: Chaconne by J.S. Bach (from Partita no. 2 in d minor for solo violin, BWV 1004) (1877)

Max Reger: Vier Spezialstudien (1901)

Leon Kirchner: For the Left Hand (1995)

John Corigliano: Etude No. 1 (from Etude Fantasy) (1976)

Felix Blumenfeld: Etude in A-flat Major, Op. 36

Fryderyk Chopin:
Etude in e-flat minor, Op. 10, No. 6 (arr. Godowski)
Etude in b minor, Op. 25, No. 10 (1835–37) (arr. Godowski)

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