Left Alone for Piano (left hand) and Orchestra was composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 2014-15. Commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and co-commissioned by City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Premiered by the WDR Sinfonieorchester and Alexandre Tharaud (piano) concducted by Ilan Volkov on January 29 2016 Cologne. Programme Note: I was born with a right hand that is not fully functional and though it never prevented me from loving playing the piano as well as I could with this physical limitation it hasobviously given me an alternative focus on the whole piano literature and has given me a close relationship with the works written for the left hand by Ravel and others. This repertoire has been with me since my youth. My very first public performance of one of my own works was in autumn 1969. The piece was called October and I played the piano with my left hand and the horn my principal instrument (the only instrument that can be played with only the left hand). Part of the piece requires the performer to play natural harmonics of the horn directly into the open strings of the grand piano to create resonance. The pedal was kept down by an assistant lying on the floor. Through decades the idea of writing a larger work for piano left hand has been in my mind. This new work is not written for a pianist with only one hand but rather by a composer who can only play with the left hand. The title Left alone contains all kinds of references not only to the obvious fact that the left hand is playing alone. Left alone is divided into two large parts each consisting of three smaller movements – in effect six in total. The work was commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and co-commissioned by City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Rotterdam Philharmonic and written for Alexandre Tharaud. Hans

Commissioned by the Salzburg Festival. First performed in August 1988 by the Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer with Krystian Zimerman. Duration c.27 mins. Full score and orchestral material available onhire from the publishers.

KV 467-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's concertos for Piano and Orchestra reveal the then young form in classical perfection. Among the most beautiful of them which are quite equals of his great symphonies are the works which he composed in a two year period (1784- 1786) which marks the highest peak in Mozart's instrumental writing and in his career as a virtuoso.- Urtext of the New Mozart Edition- Full score & parts (BA5317) two-Piano reduction (BA5317-90) and study score format 22.5 x 16.5cm (TP148) available for sale.

KV 467-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's concertos for Piano and Orchestra reveal the then young form in classical perfection. Among the most beautiful of them which are quite equals of his great symphonies are the works which he composed in a two year period (1784- 1786) which marks the highest peak in Mozart's instrumental writing and in his career as a virtuoso.- Urtext of the New Mozart Edition- Full score & parts (BA5317) two-Piano reduction (BA5317-90) and study score format 22.5 x 16.5cm (TP148) available for sale.

KV 467-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's concertos for Piano and Orchestra reveal the then young form in classical perfection. Among the most beautiful of them which are quite equals of his great symphonies are the works which he composed in a two year period (1784- 1786) which marks the highest peak in Mozart's instrumental writing and in his career as a virtuoso.- Urtext of the New Mozart Edition- Full score & parts (BA5317) two-Piano reduction (BA5317-90) and study score format 22.5 x 16.5cm (TP148) available for sale.

Par BENJAMIN GEORGE. Duo pour piano et orchestre a été commandée par Roche pour le Festival de Lucerne 2008, où il a d'abord été interprétée par l'Orchestre de Cleveland et de la direction de Franz WelserMö - st. George Benjamin CBE est l'un des compositeurs les plus remarquables de sa génération. Né en 1960, Benjamin a commencé à jouer du piano à l'âge de sept ans, et commence à composer presque immédiatement. Il est maintenant le Henry Purcell professeur de composition au King's College, à Londres et a été fait Chevalier de l'ordre DANS des Arts et Lettres en 1996. Il a été élu à l'Académie bavaroise des Beaux-Arts, seulement la quatrième fois un tel honneur a été décerné à un compositeur britannique et en 2001 il a reçu le Deutsche Symphonie Orchester de première Schoenberg Prix de composition. ' / Date parution : 2010-12-01/ Répertoire / Piano et Orchestre

Par PAUSET BRICE. Cette pièce représente le premier moment d'un triptyque pour grand orchestre et y adjoint temporairement un piano principal. Ce morceau relativement court (environ vingt minutes) essaie de poser la question de la représentation de la musique par elle-même: on assiste, en sept grandes sections, à un renouvellement permanent de la fonction du soliste tour à tour sujet de la représentation et cartographe du monde orchestral qui l'entoure. Au-delà, pour poursuivre sur la même métaphore, j'ai imaginé un géographe plus particulièrement préoccupé par la représentation du monde souterrain, en faisant entendre la face cachée de l'orchestre symphonique, l'envers de ses codes et de ses 'bonnes manières'. Ce que je cherche à présent (et pour quelques années encore) est une musique qui abolirait la notion d'esquisse: une musique dont principes et expression soient, pour ainsi dire, en constante circulation - je pense surtout à une musique impossible qui, au-delà de la non-musique, écouterait notre propre culture et nous transmettrait, par moments, ses évidences inavouables - une musique qui, telle une carte trouée par endroits, superposerait son dessin à la réalité qu'elle est sensée représenter. Je rêve d'une musique qui briserait le confort des codes admis, ceux, en particulier, d'une culture moribonde, inaltérablement attachée à désirer ce qu'elle connaît déjà. Brice Pauset / contemporain / Répertoire / Piano et Orchestre