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The HOWAT_HISCOCKS DUO will be giving an evening recital for Old Bexley Music Club on Wednesday 3rd October 2007.
Roy Howat and Wendy Hiscocks perform piano duos and duets worldwide, in Festivals and broadcasts, for Music Societies, as Classical Artists on international cruises, and as a concerto duo. In August 2002 they opened the 2002 Kusatsu Festival in Japan with performances of Poulenc's Double Concerto in Takasaki and Kusatsu with the Gunma Symphony Orchestra.
From Japan they continued to Australia for concerts including the 2002 Port Fairy Festival. In previous recent Australian tours they have given 2-piano concerts at the Canberra School of Music and on ABC Sunday Live, broadcast live from Sydney's Eugene Goossens Hall (in a programme of Schumann, Debussy, Arthur Benjamin, Poulenc, Hiscocks and Chabrier).
Their piano duo (2-piano) repertoire includes:
Arthur Benjamin: Caribbean Dance; 2 Jamaican Street Songs; Jamaicalypso;
Jamaican Rumba; From San Domingo
Chabrier: 3 Valses Romantiques (recorded on CD); España (arr. Chabrier)
Debussy: En blanc et noir; Lindaraja; Marche écossaise
Manuel de Falla: Ritual Fire Dance (El amor brujo)
Fauré: Ballade, op. 19; Fantaisie, op. 111
Gershwin: Rhapsody in blue
Goossens: Rhythmic Dance
Hely-Hutchinson: The Young Idea
Mozart: Sonata in D, K.448
Poulenc: Élégie; L'embarquement pour Cythère; Capriccio
Ravel: Sites auriculaires; Rapsodie espagnole
Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre (arr. Saint-Saëns)
Schumann: Andante & Variations
Plus 2-piano Concertos by Mozart and Poulenc. (Poulenc's Double Concerto was premiered in 1932 by Poulenc and Jacques Février, one of Roy Howat's teachers.)
Piano duet repertoire (1 piano 4 hands) includes:
Arthur Benjamin: Jamaican Rumba (arr. Trimble)
Bizet: Jeux d'enfants
Brahms: Hungarian Dances; Waltzes
Caplet: Pour les enfants bien sages (suite)
Chabrier: Joyeuse Marche, Pas redoublé, España
Debussy: Petite suite, Epigraphes antiques, and other newly-published works
Dvorák: Slavonic Dances (op. 46 & op. 72)
Fauré: Dolly suite (ed. Roy Howat); Masques et Bergamasques suite; extracts from Caligula
Grieg: Norwegian Dances
Hiscocks: Four Rustic Dances; A Dance for David
Inghelbrecht: La Nursery
Billy Mayerl: Marigold; Ace of spades (arr. Mayerl), Insect Oddities (arr. Hiscocks)
Mozart: Duet sonatas and other works
Poulenc: Sonata for piano duet
Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye
Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre (arr. Hiscocks)
Schubert: Fantasy, Rondo in A, 2 Marches caractéristiques and other works
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