7th September 2007 4:30pm

Jonathan Powell

Piano recital.

Schillinger and his contemporaries.

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Schillinger

Five Pieces, op.12

Poème héroique

Danse

Pogoudka

Danse excentrique

Grotesque

 

Sergey Protopopov

Sonata no.3, op.5 (1924_28)

 

Issay Dobrowen

Poème, op.3 no.2

Lev Revutsky

Prelude, op.4 no.1 (1914)

Nikolay Roslavets

Prelude (1915)

 

Schillinger

Marche funèbre (1928)

Studies in Rhythm I and II (1935, 1940)

Dimitry Melkikh

Sonata no.3, op.12 (1924)

 

Schilllinger

Eccentriade, op.14 (three pieces for piano)

This programme presents the music of Schillinger alongside that of Ukrainian contemporaries and composers influenced by another significant Ukrainian music theorist, Boleslav Yavorsky. We trace Schillinger’s journey from the 1920s in the Ukraine (with works such as Eccentriade) to the 1930s and beyond in the US (with the constructivist Studies in Rhythm). Dobrowen, Revutsky and Roslavets were all near contemporaries of Schillinger, and like him, Dobrowen and Roslavets were to both leave the Ukraine. The most prominent Ukrainian music theorist of the generation before Schillinger was Boleslav Yavorsky who developed a complex theory of modal rhythm. He was highly influential as a teacher of composition in Kiev and Moscow, and his students (such as Sergey Protopopov, Dimitry Melkikh, and also Alexander Krein, a leader of the so-called New Jewish School active in Russia in the 1910s and 20s) produced a number of striking works, particularly their series of piano sonatas, a genre popular in Russia during the 1920s. Jonathan Powell studied the piano with Denis Matthews and Sulamita Aronovsky, and is now fulfilling a busy schedule of international concert appearances, primarily specialising in late-Romantic composers and contemporary works. He has performed widely in Europe, as well as in Russia and the US; he has also appeared on national radio of many countries (in 2005 he gave two solo recitals on Radio France Musiques), in addition to numerous appearances on the BBC. Powell is a self-taught composer – he has recorded several of his own works for BBC broadcasts and has received performances by the London Sinfonietta, the Arditti Quartet, Valdine Anderson, Sarah Leonard, Darragh Morgan and Nicolas Hodges among others. His articles on many aspects of Russian music appear in the New Grove Dictionary of Music; his articles have been published by International Piano and the Finnish musicological journal Musiikki-lehti.



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