22 June, 7.30pm, St John Smith’s Square, London SW1
Ives: The Celestial Railroad
Scriabin: Sonata no.8
Hinton: Sonatas nos.3 and 4
Sibelius: Five Sketches, op.114
Albéniz: Azulejos
Alkan: Symphonie, op.39 nos.4-7
White: Sonata no.138
Strauss: Schluss-Szene aus Salome, arr. Sorabji (world premiere)

Festival de Chaillol, France
12 August, 21h, Église du Hameau de Saint-Michel
13 August, 18h, Château de Charance, Gap
Granados: Goyescas (complete)
Albéniz: Azulejos

22 August, Raritäten des Klaviermusik am Schloss vor Husum
Ives: The Celestial Railroad
Albéniz: Azulejos
Väinö Raitio: Neljä värirunoelmaa (‘Four Colour Poems’), op.22
Scriabin: Sonata no.8
Sibelius: Five Sketches, op.114
Goldenweiser: Ballade, op.35 no.2
Blumenfeld: Patetico, op.37 no.2; Barcarolle, op.38 no.4; Saules pleureurs, op.38 no.5; Moment dramatique, op.50 no.2; Nocturne ‘Rêve’, op.51 no.2
Strauss: Closing Scene from Salome, arr. Sorabji (German premiere)

7 September, International Schillinger Conference,
University of Hertfordshire, UK, 4pm (check this - I may be wrong)
Josef Schillinger: piano works
Protopopov: Sonata no.3
Melkikh: Sonata no.3
and short pieces by Roslavets, Revuts’ky and Dobrowen

Tour of Denmark
9 September: Esbjerg Academy of Music
Scriabin: Fantasie, op.28
Sibelius: Luonnoksia, op.114
Liszt: Chanson bohémienne
Chopin: Polonaise-Fantaisie
Hinton: Sonata no.3
Bach/Feinberg: Largo
Beethoven: Sonata op.109

12 September: Esbjerg Academy of Music with Jørgen Hald Nielsen
Rachmaninoff: Suite no.2
Debussy: En blanc et noir
Busoni: Allegro nach Mozart
Bentzon: Sonata
Grainger: Spoon River, Green Bushes

13 September: Musikteatret, Vedelsgade 25-31, Vejle
Ives: The Celestial Railroad
Albéniz: Azulejos
Väinö Raitio: Neljä värirunoelmaa (‘Four Colour Poems’), op.22
Scriabin: Sonata no.8
Sibelius: Five Sketches, op.114
Goldenweiser: Ballade, op.35 no.2
Blumenfeld: Patetico, op.37 no.2; Barcarolle, op.38 no.4; Saules pleureurs, op.38 no.5; Moment dramatique, op.50 no.2; Nocturne ‘Rêve’, op.51 no.2
Strauss: Closing Scene from Salome, arr. Sorabji (Danish premiere)

15 September at 2pm: Juhl-Sørensen Pianos, Skovvejen 2B, Århus
with Jørgen Hald Nielsen
Rachmaninoff: Suite no.2
Debussy: En blanc et noir
Busoni: Allegro nach Mozart
Bentzon: Sonata
Grainger: Spoon River, Green Bushes
Concert for two pianos with Jonathan Powell and Jørgen Hald Nielsen

1 November: Cutting Edge Series, The Warehouse, Theed St, London SE1

7pm Jonathan Powell, piano
Charles Ives: The Celestial Railroad
Morgan Hayes: Strides 2 (WP of complete version)
Jonathan Powell: Sonata VI WP
John White: Sonata no.154 WP
Alexander Scriabin: Sonata no.9
Andrew Toovey: Out Jumps Jack Death

8.15 Jonathan Powell with Sarah Leonard, Christopher Redgate, Rowland Sutherland and Dave Price
Michael Finnissy: Piano Concerto no.5
Michael Finnissy: Piano Concerto no.6

9.15 Jonathan Powell and Jørgen Hald Nielsen, two pianos
Claude Debussy: En blanc et noir
Paul Newland: Readymade I (1997)
Ferruccio Busoni: Duettino concertante
Andrew Toovey: Embrace
John White: Overture to Stanley and the Monkey King; Saki Waltz
Grainger: Spoon River

14 November: The Great Hall, Kings College, London
Programme to include:
Schubert: Sonata in G D894
Chopin: Barcarolle
Erkoreka: Dos zortzikos
Rachmaninoff: Sonata no.2 (original version)

27 November, Sheremetevsky Dvorets, Fontanka Embankment, St Petersburg, with Lore Lixenberg, mezzo-soprano, in Festival of British Music
Martyn Harry: Chamber Music
Catoire: Six chants sur poésies de Verlaine et Verhaeren
Alexandrov: Deux poésies de Rémy de Gourmont
Lourie: Rosaire

28 November, Sheremetevsky Dvorets, Fontanka Embankment, St Petersburg
Kaikhosru Sorabji: Sonata no.1
York Bowen: Four Preludes from op.106
Frank Bridge: Poem - Ecstasy
William Baines: Three Preludes
John Foulds: ‘Ingenue’ from Essays in the Modes
Alistair Hinton: Sonata no.3
John White: Sonatas nos. 19, 34, 91 and 138
Jonathan Powell: Barcarola
Morgan Hayes: Strides II
Laurence Crane: 20th Century Music
Michael Finnissy: Piano Concerto no.4

29 November, Moscow University
Frank Bridge: Ecstasy
William Baines: Prelude no.4
John White: Sonata no.95
York Bowen: Two Preludes

30 November, Music School of the Moscow Conservatoire, Merzlyakovsky pereulok, 11, Moscow, 6pm
Schubert: Sonata in G, D894
Ives: The Celestial Railroad
Scriabin: Sonata no.9
Bach-Feinberg: Adagio from Sonata no.5
Sorabji: Sonata no.1

1 December, Muradeli Music School, 18.00, Prechistenka ulitsa 32\1, Moscow 119034, 6pm
Chopin: Polonaise-Fantaisie
Sibelius: Sketches op.114
Beethoven: Sonata op.109
Scriabin: Sonata no.8
Rekhin: Antique Frescoes
Rachmaninoff: Sonata no.2

24 January 2008: Durham University Music School, 1.10pm
Schubert: Sonata D894
Schmidt: Romanze
Petyrek: Variationen und Fuge

25 January 2008: Bauer & Hieber (ex Schott-UE), 48 Gt Marlborough St, London W1F 7BB, 6.30pm
Marx: Albumblatt, Arabesque, Schmetterlingsgesichten, Klavierstuck,
Canzone, Die Flur der Engel, Herbstlegende, Ballade, Nachtstuck
Schmidt: Romanze
Uray: Ein melodische-harmonische Studie
Petyrek: Variationen C-dur
Staud: Peras. Musik fuer Klavier
Strauss: Schluss-szene aus Salome, arr. Sorabji

28 January 2008: Barocksaal (Altes Rathaus), Wipplingerstr. 8, 1010 Wien
Marx: Albumblatt, Arabesque, Schmetterlingsgesichten, Klavierstuck,
Canzone, Die Flur der Engel, Herbstlegende, Ballade, Nachtstuck
Schmidt: Romanze
Uray: Ein melodische-harmonische Studie
Petyrek: Variationen C-dur
Staud: Peras. Musik fuer Klavier
Strauss: Schluss-szene aus Salome, arr. Sorabji

3 February, 18.00: Soyuz kompozitorov Rossii, Fund Yurgensona
Muzykal’niy klub gostinoy Yurgenson
Khokhlovsky pereulok, dom 7, Moscow, tel. +7 495 629 086
*with Ksenia Vyaznikova, mezzo-soprano*
Granados: Goyescas (book I)
Musorgsky: Three Songs
Shchedrin: Grusha the Gypsy
Rekhin: Antique Frescoes
Schmidt: Romanze
Marx: Albumblatt
Strauss-Sorabji: Closing Scene from Salome

NB please leave a message if you want to attend this concert: it is a private event, although guests are welcome if arranged in advance.

Tuesday 5th February 2008
Rational Rec presents New Rational Music 2008
Doors 8pm, first performance 8.30pm
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, London E2 6NB
£5 on the door
www.rationalrec.org.uk

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Rational Rec is a monthly inter-art social occasion based at Bethnal Green Working
Men’s Club, incorporating sound, music, text, performance and film.

Laurence Crane - Some Rock Music for Alan Thomas
Alwynne Pritchard - Sheet Music
Michael Finnissy - Yob Cultcha (or ‘Keep taking the Tabloids’)
Catherine Kontz - Cahiers Trouvés
Gijs Kramer - Portal
Jonathan Powell - Rabbitango

Performed by:
Mark Knoop - accordion
Alan Thomas - electric guitar, mandolin, voice
Henri Vaxby - electric guitar
Vicky Wright - clarinet
Marcus Barcham-Stevens - violin
Guido Hennebohl – voice, home-made electronics
with: Laurence Crane, Alwynne Pritchard and Jonathan Powell

RATIONAL REC s organised by Russell Martin, Cecilia Wee and Matthew Shlomowitz.
First Tuesday of every month at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club
www.rationalrec.org.uk
Rational Rec’s season 3 is supported by Arts Council England Grants for the Arts &
the PRS Foundation.

8 March: Juhl-Sørensen Pianos, Skovvejen 2B, Århus, 14.00
Schubert: Sonata D894
Scriabin: 10th Sonata
Medtner: Prologue, op.1 no.1, Skazka op.9 no.2, Canzona serenata op.38 no.5
Rachmaninoff: Sonata no.2 (original version)

11 March: Nordjysk Musikkonservatorium | Ryesgade 52 | 9000 Ålborg, Denmark, 19.30, with Jørgen Hald Nielsen
Rachmaninoff: Suite no.2
Debussy: En blanc et noir
Busoni-Mozart: Fantasia
Bentzon: Concerto for Two Pianos
Grainger: Spoon River, Green Bushes (with Lone Karlsson)

12 March: Nordjysk Musikkonservatorium | Ryesgade 52 | 9000 Ålborg, Denmark, 14.00
Schubert: Sonata D894
Scriabin: 10th Sonata
Medtner: Prologue, op.1 no.1, Skazka op.9 no.2, Canzona serenata op.38 no.5
Rachmaninoff: Sonata no.2 (original version)

2 May, 8:30 & 9:30pm: The Walpole Bay Hotel, Fifth Avenue, Cliftonville, Margate, Kent CT9
Free; no booking required
Scriabin: Preludes op.74 nos. 1 and 2, Poemes op.69 no.1 and 71 no.2, Guirlandes op.73 no.1, Vers la flamme, op.72 in Performance of A Mysterium in collaboration with Rosie Cooper, Beck Rainford (set), & David Abra (lighting)

Commissioned by Margate Rocks Festival ‘08, www.margaterocks.co.uk and supported by the Arts Council of England. www.rosiecooper.info

11 May, 7:30pm: The Pigeon Loft at The Soho Arts Theatre, Great Newport Street, London
Scriabin: Preludes op.74 nos. 1 and 2, Poemes op.69 no.1 and 71 no.2, Guirlandes op.73 no.1, Vers la flamme, op.72 in Performance of A Mysterium, as 2 May

Free; by invitation, RSVP to book – info@rosiecooper.info

5 June: Bauer & Hieber (ex Schott-UE), 48 Gt Marlborough St, London W1F 7BB, 6.30pm
To include works by Grieg (Lyric Pieces) and transcriptions of Rachmaninoff’s songs by Wild, Kursanov, Siloti, Volodos, Meinders, Stevenson and Rachmaninoff

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

15 July: Bauer & Hieber (ex Schott-UE), 48 Gt Marlborough St, London W1F 7BB, 6.30pm
Scriabin: 10th Sonata
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
Faure: Nocturne no.13
Alkan: Symphonie pour piano seul

17 July: Festival Radio France Montpellier, Corum, Salle Pasteur, 18.00
Scriabin: 10th Sonata
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
Faure: Nocturne no.13
Alkan: Symphonie pour piano seul