This programme explores Austrian-Czech cross currents of the earlier 20th century with three ambitious works, one receiving its world première only three quarters of a century after its completion. These are complimented by very recent music from Hungary, Ukraine and Iceland.

Pianist Jonathan Powell has an international reputation as an interpreter of late-Romantic and early Modern repertoire, as well as being a committed champion of new music. His recent appearances include broadcasts for Austrian and German radio, as well as concerto engagements in Berlin, Poznań, Mainz, Baden bei Wien and elsewhere.

Programme:

Alban Berg                        Sonate op.1 (1909)

Nagy Ákos                        Clairvoyance (2021)*

                                           Dawn Birds Singing from the fields around the Csenke stream (2023)*

Egon Kornauth                Fantasie op.10 (1915)

Atli Ingólfsson                 Lascito (2019)

Maxim Kolomiiets            … in this city of stairs (2023)

Hans Winterberg             Sonata no.4 (1948)*

*world premiere