CONCERT AND CD LAUNCH
15 July: Bauer & Hieber (ex Schott-UE)
48 Gt Marlborough St, London W1F 7BB, 6.30pm
Jonathan Powell, piano
Tickets on door £8/5 concessions
Scriabin: Sonata No. 10
Medtner: Prologue, Op.1, No.1; Skazka, Op. 9, No. 2; Canzona serenata, Op. 38, No. 5; Skazka Op. 35, No. 4
Tournemire: Cloches de Châteauneuf-du-Faou, Op. 62
Fauré: Nocturne No. 13
Alkan: Symphonie pour [...]

Just to draw attention to the concert on Saturday:
21 June: Bauer & Hieber (ex Schott-UE), 48 Gt Marlborough St, London W1F 7BB, 6.30pm
with Jørgen Hald Nielsen
Rachmaninoff: Suite no.2, Symphonic Dances
Gnattali: Brasiliana no.8
Bentzon: Propostae novae
More news soon on a CD release!

Konzert

Marx: Nicht Kommunist - Komponist!

Von Daniel Wagner
Wer war Joseph Marx? Komponist, Pianist, Musikgelehrter, potenzieller Präsidentschaftskandidat und Rezensent der “Wiener Zeitung”. Es bräuchte viele Definitionen zur Darstellung dieser Integrationsfigur der österreichischen usikgeschichte. Nüchtern betrachtet, muss man ihn anders beschreiben: Marx, der beinahe Vergessene. Damit es nicht so weit kommt, gründete eine Truppe engagierter Musikliebhaber 2006 die [...]

Here is a review from my concert in Vienna (28 January):
British pianist Jonathan Powell shines with late Romantic piano music
Vienna – it needed an English pianist to come to teach the Austrians a lesson in their own recent music history. Jonathan Powell is known for his recordings of rare piano music. He discovered, for example, [...]

I have just made available a concert recording of my own Sonata VI; it can be found on the Recordings page. I played this piece in London on November 1st last year. A score will soon be available from the Bmic.

My concert in London (Bauer & Hieber) is now on the 25th January, due to the recital on the 24th in Durham. Many thanks for your understanding. Tickets will be on sale on the door for the London concert which starts at 6.30pm.
I have recently returned from the south of France where I recorded Granados’ [...]

I will be playing in London again next month.
On 1 November I will give three mini-concerts in the bmic’s Cutting Edge series. The evening starts at 7pm and will feature works by Ives, Scriabin, Debussy, Busoni and Grainger, alongside two piano concertos by Michael Finnissy (nos.5 and 6, joined in the former by Sarah Leonard, [...]

Here are two reviews of my most recent concert, at the Schloss vor Husum.
Klavierfarben und Raritäten-Glueck
Heute vibriert, spricht und leuchtet der Fluegel! Bei Jonathan Powell, so staunt mein netter Nebenmann, hört man oft nur den Ton selbst, nicht den Anschlag. In Charles Ives’ Celestial Railroad glimmen oder explodieren aus Klangmassiven heraus Choral und Marsch. Aus [...]

Copies of my edition of Sorabji’s transcription of the closing scene from Richard Strauss’ Salome are now available for sale from the Sorabji Archive, that can be contacted by writing to sorabji-archive@lineone.net.