Hannah Watson Emmrich - piano

A day and night in a forest ecosystem, told through a thematic programme of piano miniatures. With music foraged from the French baroque through to the present day, the programme follows a path through familiar territory and more overgrown corners of the piano repertoire: the brief, evocative nature of the pieces makes them a perfect introduction to composers who are well worth discovering. The concert will include new commissions by Timothy Salter, Joshua Borin and Maki Gajic Murata, tackling some less musically explored species including slime mould ('Grex'), fireflies and mushrooms! 

Programme

Notes from the Undergrowth

Leoš Janáček – On an overgrown path book 2 no. 1

Jean-Philippe Rameau – Le rappel des oiseaux / The call of the birds

Fannie Charles Dillon – Birds at Dawn

Marion Bauer – White Birches

Dora Pejáčević – Blütenwirbel / A whirl of blossoms

Sergei Rachmaninov – Lilacs

Béla Bartók – From the diary of a fly

Joshua Borin – Grex

Robert Schumann – Vogel als Prophet / The bird as prophet

François Couperin – Les ombres errantes / Wandering shadows

Maki Gajic Murata – Fireflies

Emahoy Tsegue Mariam Guebrou – Evening Breeze

Maurice Ravel – Noctuelles / Night moths

Timothy Salter – Midnight Mushrooms

François Couperin – Le rossignol en amour / The nightingale in love

Margrit Schenker – Palme mit Schnee / Palm with snow

Dora Pejáčević – Nocturne