THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER Book 1, Part 2 Tuesday 13 June 6pm, Salon PRESENTED BY Melbourne Recital Centre ARTISTS Sonya Lifschitz piano Stephen Emmerson piano PROGRAM Part 1 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685 - 1750) Cantata Actus Tragicus 'Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit', BWV 106 (arr. György Kurtág) Prelude & Fugue No.16 in G minor, BWV 861 Chorale Prelude 'Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr' (VII), BWV 711 (arr. György Kurtág) Prelude & Fugue No.10 in E minor, BWV 855 GYÖRGY KURTÁG (b. 1926) Kyrie Part 2 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Chorale Prelude 'Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir' (II), BWV 687 (arr. György Kurtág) Prelude & Fugue No.13 in F-sharp, BWV 858 GYÖRGY KURTÁG Flowers we are JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Chorale Prelude 'Herr Christ, der einig Gottes Sohn' (I), BWV 601 (arr. György Kurtág) Prelude & Fugue No.14 in F-sharp minor, BWV 859 Part 3 GYÖRGY KURTÁG Prelude & Waltz JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Prelude & Fugue No. 11 in F, BWV 856 Chorale Prelude 'O Lamm Gottes unschuldig' (VIII), BWV 656 (arr. György Kurtág) Prelude & Fugue No.12 in F minor, BWV 857

GYÖRGY KURTÁG Chorale furieux Part 4 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Chorale Prelude 'Das alte Jahr vergangen ist' (I), BWV 614 (arr. György Kurtág) Prelude & Fugue No.9 in E, BWV 854 Chorale Prelude Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland, BWV 599 (arr. György Kurtág) GYÖRGY KURTÁG Hommage à Johann Sebastian Bach JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Prelude & Fugue No.15 in G, BWV 860 Chorale Prelude 'Alle Menschen müssen sterben' (I), BWV 643 (arr. György Kurtág) The artists request that you hold your applause until the conclusion of the concert.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS Ukrainian-Australian pianist Sonya Lifschitz is increasingly becoming recognised as one of Australia’s most innovative and exciting musical voices. A sought after soloist, chamber musician, and pedagogue, Sonya’s interests are increasingly growing in the direction of aesthetic diversification in respect to performance and concert culture in Australia. In recent years she has commissioned and premiered numerous large-scale works including Kate Neal’s piano concerto Particle Zoo II premiered in 2010 at Princeton University (U.S.A.) and Damian Barbeler’s Bright Birds premiered with pianist Stephen Emmerson in 2012 at the prestigious Four Winds Festival in N.S.W., and has co-devised two major electro-acoustic works for piano in collaboration with composers Anthony Lyons and Steve Adam premiered in 2012 as part of the ASTRA Chamber Music Society season. Stephen Emmerson is one of the most respected and sought after musicians in Australia. He is in demand both as a pianist, pedagogue and scholar, performing regularly with orchestras and chamber ensembles as well as giving lectures and master classes both in Australia and abroad. Stephen studied piano with Pamela Page at the University of Queensland and later in London with Peter Wallfisch of the Royal College of Music. At the completion of his undergraduate degree, a Commonwealth Scholarship enabled him to study at New College Oxford where he graduated with a Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. He has been on full-time staff at the Queensland Conservatorium since 1987 where he teaches various music history and performance-related courses. As a pianist, he has performed widely around Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific. Melbourne Recital Centre acknowledges the people of the Kulin nation on whose land this concert is being presented.

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