Programmes

Performing Schubert Forellenquintett with Werner Hink, Yoshiyuki Itoda and members of the Panocha Quartet, 2002 Kusatsu Festival

Some of Roy Howat’s Programmes

Klosters Sommerkonzerte, Switzerland
Chabrier: Idylle (Pièces pittoresques)
Fauré: Nocturne no. 6
Debussy: 4 Preludes
Robin Orr: Three lyric pieces (world première)
Schubert: Sonata in A, D.959

Musicales Gabriel Fauré, Annecy-le-Vieux, France
Déodat de Séverac: En tartane (Cerdaña)
Fauré: Nocturne no. 6; Barcarolle no. 7
Debussy: Four Etudes
Fauré: Barcarolle no. 5
René de Castéra: Serenata; Le petit chat est mort
Fauré: Ballade, op. 19 (2 pianos with Wendy Hiscocks)
Chabrier: 3 Valses romantiques

Saint-Maurice, Switzerland (live broadcast on Radio Suisse Romande)
Chabrier: Improvisation (Pièces pittoresques)
Wendy Hiscocks: Suite: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Fauré: Nocturnes nos. 6 & 13
Schubert: Sonata in C minor, D.958

Girona International Summer Academy, Spain
Bartók: 4 Bulgarian Dances (Mikrokosmos)
Debussy: Berceuse héroïque; Page d’album; Elégie
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Debussy: Preludes, Book 2 (complete)

Maison de la Radio, Paris, live broadcast on Radio France Musique
Chabrier: Aubade
Elgar: In Smyrna; Skizze
Chabrier: 10 Pièces pittoresques

Fundación Juan March, Madrid
Debussy: Douze Etudes (complete) & Etude retrouvée

Djanogly Concert Hall, Nottingham, all-Ravel Recital (repeated for a Radio Suisse Romande broadcast )
Valses nobles et sentimentales; Gaspard de la nuit
A la manière de Borodine; A la manière de Chabrier; Le tombeau de Couperin

Geneva, Salle Ernest Ansermet, Société Fréderic Chopin / Radio Suisse Romande
Chopin: Preludes in C & B-flat (op. 28)
Debussy: Danseuses de Delphes
Chopin: Nouvelle Etude in A-flat; Debussy: Etude ‘Pour les sixtes’
Chopin: Ballade no. 3; Debussy: L’isle joyeuse
Chopin: Étude in A-flat, op. 25 no.1
Ravel: Ondine (Gaspard de la nuit)
Chopin: Sonata in B-flat minor, op. 35
Fauré: Barcarolle no. 5
Chabrier: Mélancolie (Pièces pittoresques)
Chopin: Barcarolle op. 60

Kusatsu 2002 International Festival, Japan
A series of concerts including:
Poulenc: Double Concerto (with Wendy Hiscocks and Gunma Symphony Orchestra, cond. by Kimbo Ishii-Eto)
Fauré: 1st Piano Quintet (with the Panocha Quartet)
Poulenc: Sextet (with Wolfgang Schultz, Thomas Indermühle, Karl Leister, Kouzou Moriyama & Milan Turkovic)
Schubert: Trout Quintet
Debussy: Piano Trio
Beethoven: Archduke Trio
A solo programme including Japanese premieres of Debussy’s “Les soirs illuminés par l’ardeur du charbon” and Wendy Hiscocks’s Tarantella

A sample period from Roy Howat’s diary in 2000

14 February and 13 March, Roehampton Institute London,
then Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, with Miwako Abe, violin
Fauré: Sonata no. 1 in A, op. 13 (in Roy Howat’s Urtext edition)
Wendy Hiscocks: The Flame (world and Australian premières)

14 April 2000, Adelaide, Pilgrim Church, in association with Alliance française
Debussy: Danse
Fauré: Pièces brèves nos. 1, 2, 5 & 7
Debussy: Children’s corner
Chopin: Ballade no. 3
Debussy: Suite bergamasque
Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin

16 May, Brisbane, Queensland Conservatorium of Music
24 May, Wahroonga Music Society, Sydney
25 June, Windsor Castle, England
Fauré: Extracts from Pièces brèves
Debussy: Suite bergamasque
Schubert: Sonata in B-flat, D.960

11 June, Eugene Goossens Hall, Sydney,
ABC Sunday Live broadcast, 2 pianos with Wendy Hiscocks
Debussy: Lindaraja; Marche écossaise
Schumann: Andante and Variations
Wendy Hiscocks: Unseen Dances (1st broadcast)
Arthur Benjamin: 2 Jamaican Street Songs; Caribbean Dance
Poulenc: Élégie; L’embarquement pour Cythère
Chabrier: España (Chabrier’s own 2-piano version)

21 June, Zürich Zentralbibliothek, with Oliver Lewis, violin
Johann Carl Eschmann: Fantasiestücke op. 9
H. Sulzberger: Chanson d’été (world premiere)
Fauré: Violin Sonata no. 2 in E, op. 108

1 July, International Schubert Conference, Leeds University
Schubert: Sonata in B-flat (D.960)