BRITISH MUSIC SOCIETY OF NORTHERN IRELAND FIRST RECITAL BARRY DOUGLAS (piano) Saturday 27 September 1980 Harty Room.

TONIGHT'S ARTIST We are delighted to welcome BARRY DOUGLAS to open the 1980/81 season of the BMS. Since leaving Belfast to study in London, Barry has been making quite a name for himself all round the world, having won prizes in many major piano competitions. His most recent success came in July of this year, when he won second prize in an International Piano Competition in Santander, Spain: no first prize was awarded. Barry is currently studying with John Barstow at the Royal College of Music, and we wish him all the very best for his future career. Sonata in B flat, K.570 W.A. Mozart This fairly short sonata, dating from 1789, is not, perhaps, one of Mozart's better-known works in this genre and is, in fact, more often heard with an existing violin part which was not written by Mozart at all, although it is assumed to be. The original piano sonata, however, although heard infrequently, is a work of which pianists speak with much enthusiasm after "rediscovering" it. Ballade No.2 in B minor Although much of Liszt's piano music is programmatic, the composer preferred not to say whether the music of this Ballade, written in 1853, meant anything other than itself. The work is in a free sonata-form structure, an unusual feature of which is the Recapitulation beginning with the second subject rather than the expected first subject. This striding main theme, however, is re-introduced in a transformed version in the Coda, which gradually grows in volume towards a grandoise and triumphant climax; instead of continuing in this fashion, the theme dies away - a typical Lisztian trait and the work ends with a reference to the gentler second half of the main theme. Franz Liszt

Consolation No. 3 in D flat. One of the most popular of Liszt's shorter pieces, this Consolation, dating from 1849/50, derives its title from a collection of poems by Saint-Beuve. While owing an apparent debt to Chopin, the harmonic and modulatory resources are entirely Lisztian - as the Coda amply demonstrates. Mephisto Waltz No.1. This piece, one of a collection of four Mephisto Waltzes, has been a standard war-horse for virtuosi ever since its completion between 1858 and 1860. Unlike the other three, No.1 is programmatic and forms the second of two episodes from Lenau's Faust. Liszt hoped that the two episodes would prove inseparable, but posterity thought otherwise and this second one has become immensely popular. ΤΗ Ε The story of the piece is well-known: sub-titled "The Dance at the Village Inn", it depicts a scene at a wedding The feast at which Faust and Mephistopheles are present. latter strikes up a frenzied tune on his violin and sets everyone dancing. Faust is attracted by the landlord's daughter and dances away with her into the starlit and nightingale-haunted forest where, in the words of the poet, they "sink in the ocean of their own lust". Sat Franz Liszt NEXT CONCERT 11 October 1980 Franz Liszt Elmwood Hall, 7.30pm DOLMETSCH CONCE R T A N T E