9. Repertoire

 

 

 

NICHOLAS ASHTON

Repertoire

Chamber Music

J S Bach

six flute sonatas

Mozart

K 378 Bb major violin sonata
K 379 G major violin sonata
K 478 G minor piano quartet
K 493 Eb major piano quartet
K 448 D major sonata for two pianos
K548 C major trio
Introduction and Allegro, Eb major, two pianos
K521 C major sonata, piano duet
K497 F major sonata, piano duet
Kv381 D major sonata, piano duet
Kv358 Bb major sonata, piano duet
Kv501 G major theme and variations, piano duet
Kv357 G major sonata, piano duet
Kv401 G minor fugue, piano duet
Kv594 Stuck fur ein Orgelwerk in einer Uhr, F minor, piano duet
Kv608 Ein Orgelstuck fur eine Uhr, F minor, piano duet

Weber
Gran Duo, Eb major, clarinet, piano

Beethoven

Op 1 no 1 Eb major trio

Op 6 D major sonata, piano duet
Op 11 piano/cello/clarinet trio
Op 14 Eb major piano quartet
op 18 F major sonata, french horn, piano
Op 23 A minor violin sonata
Op 30 no 3 G major violin sonata
Op 94 G major violin sonata

Op 5 no 1 F major cello sonata
Op 5 no 2 G minor/major cello sonata
Op 69 A major cello sonata
Op 102 C major cello sonata
woO46, 7 Variations on Mozart: Bei Maennern welche Liebe fuehlen
Op 66 Variations on Mozart:ein Maedchen oder Weibchen
Op 102 no 2 D major sonata (in preparation)

Schubert

Trockene Blumen, flute and piano
Die Schoene Muellerin (high, medium and lower voice)
Arpeggione Sonata, cello and piano
Variations on a French Song  (piano duet)
Variations in E minor (piano duet)
Fantasie, F minor (piano duet)

Mendelssohn

Op 47 D minor piano trio

Chopin

Rondo Op 3/73, C major, two pianos

Schumann

Piano Quintet, op 44, Eb major
Frauenliebe und Leben, mezzo soprano, piano
Fantasiestucke op 73, clarinet, piano
Stuecke im Volkston, cello/oboe, piano

Liederkreis op 23 (both higher and lower voice)
Liederkreis op 39 (both higher and lower voice)

Brahms

Op 9 B major trio
Op 78 G major violin sonata
Op 100 A major violin sonata
Op 114 A minor piano trio (cello, clarinet Bb)
Op 120a F minor clarinet sonata
Op 120b Eb major clarinet sonata
Op 54 Variations two pianos (St Anthony Chorale)
Op 91 Two songs, mezzo soprano, viola, piano
Op 34a and b Piano Quintet. Two Piano Sonata, F minor
Op 60 Piano Quartet, C minor (in preparation)

Dvorak

Piano Quintet A major, op 81

Mahler

Piano Quartet movement, A minor (1876)

Elgar

Piano Quintet, E minor

Dohnanyi

Piano Quintet no 2 Eb major

Faure

Piano Quintet no 1 Op 81, D minor
Piano Trio op 120 (clarinet and cello version)
La bonne chanson (lower version only)

Scriabin

Fantasie, A minor, op.post. (for two pianos)

Prokofiev

Sonata, violin, piano op 90, F minor

Sonata, flute, piano op 94, D major

Quintet on a Jewish theme, piano, string quartet

Shostakovich

Piano Quintet, G minor
Sonata, cello, piano, Op 40

Khachachurian

Trio, piano violin, clarinet

Bartok

Contrasts, clarinet, violin, piano

Debussy

Sonata, violin, piano
Petite Suite (piano duet)
Nocturnes (arr. Ravel) for two pianos

En blanc et noir, two pianos (in preparation)

Martinu

Sonata, flute and piano
Sonatina, clarinet and piano

Ravel

Sonata, violin, piano
Ma mere l’’oye (piano duet)
Cinq melodies populaires greques
Don Quichotte a  dulcinee
Histoires naturelles

Stravinsky

L’’Histoire du Soldat: trio version, violin, clarinet, piano
Duo Concertant (1934) violin, piano
Concerto for Two Solo Pianos (1936) (in preparation)
Sonata for Two Pianos (1944)
Fireworks/Feu d’artifice (1908) for two pianos

Milhaud

Trio, clarinet, violin, piano

Poulenc

Sonata, flute, piano
Sonata, clarinet, piano
Sonata, oboe, piano
Sonata, two pianos/piano duet
Un jour, telle nuit: cycle for baritone and piano

Hindemith

Sonata, clarinet, piano
Sonata, trumpet, piano
Sonata, french horn, piano
Sonata, oboe, piano
Sonata, cor anglais, piano
Sonata, trombone, piano
Sonata, tuba, piano
Sonata, two pianos (in preparation)

Henri Dutilleux

Sonata, oboe, piano

Pavel Haas

Suite, oboe, piano

Antal Dorati

Duo concertant, oboe, piano

Schnittke

Piano Quintet
Cello Sonata (1977)

Robert Crawford

Piano Quintet (2005)
Variations for Two Pianos (1993) (in preparation)

John McLeod

Three Poems of Irina Ratuschinskaya (soprano and piano)

Kenneth Dempster

Chaconne in memoriam (2002) (six hands, one piano)

Giacinto Scelsi

Krishna e Radha (Improvvisazione) (1986), flute and piano

Benjamin Britten

Introduction and Rondo Burlesca (1940), Two Pianos

Witold Lutoslawski

Variations on a Theme of Paganini (1941), Two Pianos

Drew Hammond

Strata (for two pianos) 2009
Watershed (for two pianos) 2011

David Thomas Duncan

Variations for Two Pianos (2008-9)
New work, two pianos and percussion (2012) (in preparation)

Jane Stanley

Pentimenti (for two pianos) 2011

John de Simone

Praeludium (for two pianos) 2011

John Adams

Hallelujah Junction (for two pianos) (1996) (in preparation)

Ian Percy

Mystics (for two pianos) 2015

Stephen Pratt

Fast Forward (for two pianos) 2015

Moving On (for two pianos) 2016 (in preparation)

Graham Warner

Flux (for two pianos) 2015

 

Solo 17th-18th century

F. Couperin

Chaconne “la favorite”

 

J S Bach

Partita no 1, Bb major
Partita no 5, G major
Toccata BWV 914, E minor
Preludes and Fugues:
Book 1 nos 1, 2, 3, 4 , 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Book 2 nos 12, 19
Capriccio on the Departure of His Beloved Brother

 

Handel

Keyboard suite no 2, F major
Keyboard suite no 5, E major
Chaconne, G major

 

D. Scarlatti

ten sonatas

 

Haydn

Sonata Hob XVI:22, E major
Sonata Hob XVI:24, D major
Sonata Hob XVI:27, G major
Sonata Hob XVI:31, E major
Sonata Hob XVI:36, D major
Sonata Hob XVI:41, Bb major
Sonata Hob XVI:46, Ab major
Sonata Hob XVI:48, C major
Sonata Hob XVI:49, Eb major
Sonata Hob XVI:50, C major

Adagio Hob XVII:9, F major
Variations Hob XVII:5, C major
Variations Hob XVII:6, F minor

 

Mozart

Sonata K 281, Bb major
Sonata K 282, Eb major
Sonata K 284, D major

Sonata K 286, D major

Sonata K 333, Bb major
Sonata K 457, C minor
Sonata K 576, D major

Fantasia, K 475, C minor

Rondo K 511, A minor
Fragments from a Suite, C minor
Eine kleine Gigue, G major
Variations, “Lison dormait” C major
Variations “Ah, je vous dirai, Maman” C major

 

Beethoven

Sonata op 2 no 1, F minor
Sonata op 2 no 3, C major
Sonata op 7, Eb major
Sonata op 10 no 3, D major
Sonata op 14 no 2, G major

Solo 19th century

Beethoven

Sonata op 26, Ab major
Sonata op 27 no 1, Eb major
Sonata op 28, D major
Sonata op 31 no 3, Eb major
Sonata op 49 no 2, G minor
Rondo op 51/1, C major
Sonata op 53, C major
Sonata op 78, F+ major
Sonata op 81a “Les Adieux” (in preparation)
Sonata op 90, E minor

Sonata op 101, A major
Sonata op 109, E major

Andante Favori WoO57
Variations op 34, F major

Six Bagatelles op 126

 

Schubert

4 Sonata Movements D 506/566, E minor/major
Sonata D 575, B major
Sonata D 664, A major
Sonata D 845, A minor
Sonata D 850, D Major “Gasteiner” (in preparation)
Sonata D 894, G major
Impromptus D 935
Allegretto, D 915, C minor
Andantino, A major
“Huttenbrenner” Variations, A minor

 

Chopin

Etudes op 10 nos 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Etudes op 25 nos 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12

Etude d’apres Mocheles, Ab major

Impromptu op 36 F sharp major
Preludes op 28 complete
Mazurkas op 17, op 33, op 40, op 59; A minor “notre temps”
Scherzo op 54, E major

Nocturne, op 9 no 1, Bb minor

Valses op 34/3, op 42, op 70/1, op posth E minor, op post Eb major

Fantaisie op 49, F minor

 

 

Liszt

Jeux d’’eaux a la Villa d’ ’Este
Valse oubliee no 1
Polonaise no 2, E major
Hungarian Rhapsody no 4, Eb major
Etude de concert “un sospiro”, Db major
Etude d’’execution transcendante no 5: “Feux-follets”
Etude d’’execution transcendante no 7: “Vision”
Paganini etude no 3, “la campanella”
Paganini etude no 4, E major (one stave) “arpeggi”
“Nuages gris”
Czardas macabre
Predication “St Francis d’ Assisi”

Der Atlas (transcription from Schubert), G minor

 

Schumann

Abegg Variations, op 1, F major
Papillons, op 2
Intermezzi op 4 (in preparation)

Allegro, B minor, op 8

Fantasiestuecke, op 12

Kinderszenen, op 15
Arabeske, op 18, C major
Humoreske, op 20, Bb major
Sonata op 22, G minor
Pieces op 99/124
Paganini Etuden 1, 2, 3, 6

Gesaenge der Fruehe op.135 (in preparation)

“Geister” Variations on a dictated Theme from Schubert or Mendelssohn, Eb major, (1853) (in preparation)

Symphonische Etuden (with the posthumous 5 etuden) op 13 (1853 version) (in preparation)

Konzert ohne Orchester (1836 version), F minor (in preparation)

 

Mendelssohn

Sonata, op 6, E major
Lied ohne Worte “Duetto”, Ab major

Gondolierlied (Barcarolle 1), G minor, op.19b no 6

 

Brahms

Variations on a Theme by Schumann, op 9

4 Ballades, op 10

Paganini Variations op 35 Book 1

Klavierstuck op 116 No 5

Four Pieces op 119

Albumblatt: “un poco agitato”, A Minor (1853) (in preparation)

 

Wagner

Elegy, Ab Major: “Schmachtend”

 

Grieg

Sonata op 7, E minor

“un peu triste”

 

Mussorgsky

Pictures at an Exhibition

 

Scriabin

Nocturne for the left hand op 9 no 2, Db major

Sonata No 4 (in preparation)

Vers la flamme

 

 

 

 

 20th -21st century

Boulez
Notations (in preparation)
Sonata no 1

Debussy
Etude pour les arpeges composees
Clair de lune

Children’s Corner (No 4: Snow is Dancing; No 5: The Little Shepherd)

Preludes (premier livre) in preparation (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
Preludes (deuxieme livre) in preparation (1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12)

Ravel
Valses nobles et sentimentales
Ondine (Gaspard de la Nuit)

Noctuelles (Miroirs)

Vallee des cloches (Miroirs)

Janacek
In the Mist
On an Overgrown Path (Book 1)
Sonata 1.x.1905

Schoenberg

Sechs kleine Klavierstuecke op 19
Suite op 25

Webern

Kinderstuck

Variations op 27

Bartok
Allegro barbaro, op 9
Suite op 14
Mikrokosmos 6 (selection)

Nielsen
Chaconne (1914)

Stravinsky
Etude op 7 no 4, F sharp major
Piano-Rag-Music (1919)
Sonata (1924)
Serenade en la (1925)
Trois mouvements de Petroushka (1921)
Concerto for Two Solo Pianos (1936) (in preparation)

Sonata for Two Pianos (1944)

Prokofiev
Cinq Sarcasmes, op 17
Sonata no 4, C minor
Sonata No 5, C major
Sonata no 9, C major (in preparation)

Suggestion diabolique op 4

Copland
Variations (1930)
Midsummer Nocturne
Midday Thoughts

Piano Sonata (1939-40) (in preparation)

Berio
Six Encores

Ligeti

Musica Ricercata (Nos 1, 2, 3)
Etudes (troisieme livre) (in preparation)

Etude: Arc-en-ciel (premier livre)
Etude: L’Escalier du Diable (deuxieme livre)

Robert Crawford
Six Bagatelles op 3 (1947)
Sonata No 2 (1951)
Sonata breve (Sonata No 3) (1991)
Saltire Sonata (Sonata No 2) (1990)
Piano Quintet (2005)
Variations for Two Pianos  (1993) (in preparation)

Prelude (2010-11)

John White
Sonata no 108 (Reminicenza di tango)

John MacLeod
Two Protest Pieces (1993)

Piano Sonata No 4 (in preparation)

Kenneth Dempster
Vista (2005)

Fabrice Fitch
Wind Up I
Wind Up II: Rockabye
Wind Up III: See-Saw (d’apres Brahms)

John Hails
EMG1/2 (2008)

Gerhard Staebler
Ferne/Naehe (III)

Drew Hammond
Strata (for two pianos) 2009
Watershed (for two pianos) 2011

David Thomas Duncan
Variations for Two Pianos (2008-9)

New work, two pianos and percussion (2012) (in preparation)

Jane Stanley
Pentimenti (for two pianos) 2011

John de Simone
Praeludium (for two pianos) 2011

John Adams
American Berserk (2001) (in preparation)
Hallelujah Junction (1996), two pianos  (in preparation)

Elliott Carter
Two Thoughts about the piano:
Intermittences (2006) (in preparation)
Catenaires (2006) (in preparation)

Giacinto Scelsi

Krishna e Radha (Improvvisazione) (1986) flute and piano

Ian Percy

Mystics (for two pianos) 2015

Stephen Pratt

Fast Forward (for two pianos) 2015

Graham Warner

Flux (for two pianos) 2015

 

 

Concerti

Bach
D minor
A major

Haydn
D major
C major

Mozart

K 246 C major

K 271 Eb major

K 413 F major
K 414 A major
K 415 C major

K 456 Bb major
K 488 A major
K 491 C minor
K 595 Bb major

Beethoven
No 2 Bb major
No 3 C minor
Choral Fantasia

Liszt
No 1 Eb major

Mendelssohn

Concerto for violin, piano and strings (in preparation)

Prokofiev
No 5, G major op 55 (in preparation)

Schumann
Op 54 A minor
Introduction and Allegro, G major

Tchaikovsky
No 1 op 23 Bb minor

Saint-Saens
No 2 op 22 G minor

Stravinsky
Piano and Wind (1924)
Capriccio (1929)

Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue (jazz band version)

Bernstein

Prelude, Fugue and Riffs for jazz band, clarinet Bb and piano

Shostakovich
No 2 F major

Weber
Konzertstuck F minor (in preparation)