BEMF
2009
Concert and Reception
Boston Clavichord Society
June 12, 2009
Free and open to the public.
In collaboration with the Boston Early Music Festival, the BCS will present a recital during the June 2009 festival.
Maximilian Fleischman, clavichord
• Beethoven: Variations in F, Op. 34
• J. Haydn: Sonata in G minor, Hob. XVI/44
• D. Scarlatti: Sonata in D minor, K.9, L.413
• C.P.E. Bach: Rondo in Dß minor Wq. 61/4
• Scarlatti: Sonata in D major, K. 96, L 465
• J.S. Bach: Partita in G major, BWV 829
• Haydn: Variations in G major, from the finale to the String Quartet, op.33, no.5 (arr. Haydn/Fleischman).
Max Fleischman
has been living in Winnipeg, Canada for several years. He has played there
in the Agassiz Chamber Music Festival, the Winnipeg Summer Cello Institute
(together with the principal cellist of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra),
and in the Virtuosi Baroque Series with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra Chamber
Players. He holds master’s degrees from the Eastman School of Music
and the Oberlin Conservatory. Max will be going to Gdansk, Poland later in
the summer, where he will be on the faculty as a Collaborative Artist in the
Morningside Music Bridge program.
June 12, First Church, Boston
66 Marlborough Street
The music begins at 2pm and will be preceded by a buffet reception
Directions
to First Church, Boston
An
official BEMF event, David Breitman and Peter Sykes will present back
to back recitals on Thursday, June 11, 2-4 pm at First Lutheran Church in
Boston
Directions
to First Lutheran Church, Boston
David Breitman, clavichord
Josef Haydn
• Sonata in B minor, Hob. XVI/32C.P.E. Bach
• From the 5th collection “Für Kenner und Liebhaber,” Wq 59
Fantasia in C
Rondo in GJ.S. Bach
• English Suite No. 2 in A minor
Director of the
Historical Performance program at the Oberlin Conservatory, David
Breitman takes a keen interest in all keyboard instruments. As part
of a team of seven fortepianists he recorded the first-ever complete Beethoven
Piano Sonata series on period instruments, and he has a complete set of the
Mozart fortepiano/violin sonatas with Jean-François Rivest. Four CD’s
with Sanford Sylvan span a wide range: from Schubert’s Die schöne
Müllerin to an album of American song cycles.
His interest in the clavichord began at the 2002 “Harmoniques”
conference in Lausanne, where it was featured prominently. He acquired an
instrument (Hass copy by Ugo Casiglia) soon thereafter; his first public clavichord
performance took place in 2005, at the GoART workshop in Göteborg, Sweden.
Since then he has performed at the Edinburgh Clavichord Symposium, for the
Boston Clavichord Society, and at Oberlin, where he has added clavichord instruction
to the curriculum.
Peter Sykes, clavichord
Franz Joseph Haydn 1732-1809
• Sonata in A major, Hob. XVI:26
Allegro moderato
Menuet al Rovescio
Finale – PrestoLudwig van Beethoven 1770-1827
• From Sonata in D Major, op. 10, no. 3
Largo e mestoHaydn
• Sonata in B-Flat major, Hob. XVI:41
Allegro
Allegro di moltoHaydn
• Andante and Variations in F minor, Hob. XVII:6Peter Sykes is Associate Professor of Music and Head of the Historical Performance Department at Boston University, where he teaches organ, harpsichord, performance practice, and continuo realization. He is also a member of the faculty at the Longy School of Music and Music Director of First Church in Cambridge. He performs extensively on
the harpsichord, clavichord, and organ, and has made ten solo recordings of repertoire ranging from Buxtehude, Couperin, and Bach, to Reger, Hindemith, and his acclaimed organ transcription of Holst’s “The Planets”; soon to be released on the Centaur label will be the complete Bach Partitas for harpsichord. He performs and records with Boston Baroque and Aston Magna, teaches at Amherst Early Music, and is a founding board member and current President of the Boston Clavichord Society.
Throughout the week of the festival, the Boston Clavichord Society will have an informational display, including literature and CD's, at a table on the second floor of the Radisson Hotel.