programmes

Each year we propose a concert and CD centred around one geographical area:

Austria, Germany, Switzerland; the pre-war years, unrest… 
Carl Frühling: Fantasy op. 55 (1929)
Paul Hindemith: Sonata IPH 45 (1936)
Frank Martin:  Ballade (1939)  
Boris Blacher: Sonata (1940)
Hans Gál: Drei Kleine Stücke (1933) – solo piano

Russia

Sergei Prokofiev:  Sonata Op. 94 (1942/43)
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: 12 Miniatures Op.29 (1945)

The Netherlands

Dick Kattenburg: Pièce (1939) 
Willem Andriessen: Praeludium (1942) – solo piano
Leo Smit: Sonata (1943)             
Marius Flothuis: Sonata da camera Op. 17 (1943)
Marius Flothuis:  Aubade (1944) – solo flute
Rudolf Escher: Habanera (1945) – solo piano
Hans Osieck: Varsovie Accuse (1946) – solo piano

France

Henri Dutilleux Sonatine (1943)
André Jolivet Chant de Linos (1944)
Paul Sancan Sonatine (1946) 

America & Great Britain

Bohuslav Martinu:  Sonata (1944) – written in America
Edwin York Bowen: Sonata (1946)
Eldin Burton: Sonatina (1948)

Each concert to be illustrated by contemporary spoken texts & poems.