BRITISH MUSIC SOCIETY OF NORTHERN IRELAND:2 1962 1963 SEVENTH RECITAL under the auspices of THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST BELA SIKI (Pianoforte) SIR WILLIAM WHITLA HALL Queen's University, Belfast THURSDAY, 14th FEBRUARY, 1963 at 7.45 p.m.

Sonata in B flat, K. 333 1 ORDUA Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Allegro Andante cantabile Allegretto grazioso This sonata was one of several composed during the Paris visit of the year 1778 together with concertos for Mozart's own platform appearances. This one, which owes something to the influence of Johann Christian Bach, is noteworthy for certain harmonic and rhythmic novelties in advance of common eighteenth century usage. Carnaval, Op. 9 Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Préambule - Pierrot - Arlequin - Vasle noble - Eusebius Florestan Coquette - Replique - Papillons - Lettres dansantes (ASCH, SCHA) - Chiarina Chopin Reconnaissance - Pantalon et Colombine-Valse allemande Paganini Aveu Promenade Pause Marche des Davidsbündler contre les Philistines - This work, composed in 1834-5, began as a series of variations on Schubert's Sehnsuchtswaltzer, but, except at the beginning of the Préambule, little of this idea survives. It is a series of picturesque pieces, of strong biographical interest, founded on the musical letters in Schumann's name, SCHA, in English usage GCBA; these happen also to be the anagram of ASCH, the birthplace of his inamorata of the moment, Ernestine von Fricken. Eusebius and Florestan are the names under which Schumann symbolized the introspective and the active sides of his nature. Chiarina is Clara Wieck whom he was afterwards to marry. The Davidsbündler were members of an imaginary League of David formed by Schumann in opposition to the Philistine attitude to art. INTERVAL

Sonata (1926) Allegro moderato Sostenuto e pesante Allegro molto Bartók Béla (1881-1945) At the time of the composition of this work Bartók was a touring virtuoso pianist, and this is one of the works he wrote for his own use in this capacity. A highly percussive work, it does nothing to appease the ears of those expecting ordinary harmonies or melo- dies. Traces of the folk-songs that underlie parts of it are hard to discover. Nearly everything seems to be conceived in terms of rhythm. We are told that Bartók considered the work to be in E major. Six Preludes Federico Mompou (1893- Mompou was born in Barcelona. In an eloquent, indeed emotional, panegyric of Mompou in the current "Grove" by Walter Starkie we have the picture of a great poet of the keyboard who, much influenced by Catalan folk methods, has reduced the art of pictorial and suggestive writing to the utmost delicacy and simplicity. Speci- fic information about these preludes has not been forthcoming in time for this programme. Fantasia Bética Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) Written in 1919, and so contemporary with The Three Cornered Hat, this work is dedicated to Arthur Rubinstein. Baetica was the Latin name for the modern Spanish province of Andalusia. Next Concerts : February 28th : THE AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Quartet in G Major, Op. 77, No. 1 Quartet No. 6 Quartet in A Major, Op. 41, No. 3 March 4th: EMMY LOOSE and MARTIN ISEPP Haydn Bartók Schumann