Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire, third edition

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H Pavel Haas (1899–1944) Czech Republic Haas studied with Janácek at the Brno Conservatory. Haas died at Auschwitz. Suite Op.13 1935 (Tempo Praha/Bote & Bock). 1. Praeludium; 2. Con Molta espressione; 3. Danza; 4. Pastorale; 5. Postludium.Movements 1, 3, and 5 are®ashy and contrast with No. 2 (dreamy) and No. 4 (meditative). Polymetric; interesting rhythms. M-D. Alois Hába (1893–1973) Czech Republic Around 1920 Hába evolved a system of quarter-tone and sixth-tone music based on equal temperament. He had microtonic instruments constructed, including a quarter-tone piano, and he has written a number of treatises about his experiments . Sonata d Op.3 1919 (UE) 28pp. Thick, chromatic idiom in all three movements; contains some lovely moments. D. Toccata Op.38 Quasi una fantasia 1931 (CHF 1962) 17pp. Sectional; many types of ¤guration and mood; changing meters; ending only has motoric rhythmic drive. Freely tonal. M-D. Sech Stimmungen (Six Moods) Op.102 (Artia 1817; Panton) 13pp. 18 min. Contrasting character pieces, MC. M-D. Yoshio Hachimura (1938– ) Japan Improvisation (Ongaku-No-Tomo-Sha 1964) 8pp. Five short pieces (sections) with variable meters, some “senza tempo.” Pointillistic, harmonics, clusters, dynamic extremes. M-D. Manos Hadjidakis (1925–1994) Greece Hadjidakis is best known for his ¤lm score Never on Sunday. For a Little White Seashell (Papagrigorious—H. Nakes Co.). Five preludes and dances. “Calamatianos,” from this set, appears in KC, 13/5 (September– October 1993): 53–56. This dance comes from the city of Kalamata: 7/8 meter (3 + 4), structured in four-measure melodic phrases. Int. to M-D. Six Popular Pictures; Ionian Suite; Rhythmology (H. Nakes Co.). Reynaldo Hahn (1875–1947) France These works are all delightful confections that cannot be indulged too excessively . Chanson de Midi (Heugel). A pretty tri®e. Int. to M-D. 366 Premières Valses (10) 1898 (Heugel). Simple and tuneful. Int. to M-D. Deux Etudes (Heugel 1927).1.Aβ: sixteenth-note accompaniment over melody in left hand. 2. d: triplet study. M-D. Portraits de Peintres 1896 (Hengel) 18pp. Four colorful pieces after the poetry of Marcel Proust. Musical pictures of Albert Cuyp, Paulus Potter, Anton van Dyck, and Antoine Watteau. A portrait of each honored painter and a Proust poem precede each piece. M-D. Thème Varié 1909 (Durand) 4pp. Theme with ¤ve variations, neoclassic style; good ¤nger facility required. M-D. Alexei Haieff (1914–1994) USA, born Russia Haieff writes in a neoclassic style that has much vitality and is naturally attractive. Five Pieces (Bo&H 1946) 15 min. Allegro; Andantino; Vivace scherzando; Lento molto; Allegro molto. Ranges from M-D imitative counterpoint to bravura writing in the ¤nal piece. Four Juke Box Pieces (Bo&H 1952). Waltz: you can whistle an ad lib cornet obbligato .March:with 2/4 and 3/8 juxaposed.Nocturne.Polka.Humorous.M-D. 11 Bagatelles (EMM 1950). Short; exploit contemporary idioms. M-D. Gifts and Semblances (Bo&H 1954). 4 pieces. Int. to M-D. Sonata (Chappell 1956). 3 movements. A large MC work with more interpretative problems than technical, tonal ambiguity, large skips in melody, contrasting textures. M-D. Sonata No.2 (PAU 1955). 4 movements. Transparent textures. Effective bitonal¤nal movement. M-D. Notes of Thanks (Chappell 1961). 6 short pieces, jazz in®uence. Numerous pianistic problems, especially wide skips. M-D. Saint’s Wheel (Gen 1960). Variations on a circle of ¤fths. In reality, a ¤ne contemporary chaconne. Looks more dif¤cult than it is but requires sensitive voicing of lines. Contemporary sounds; trill plays an important part; left-hand skips. Requires mature musicianship. Children’s Pieces (Gen). 10 short pieces, contemporary sonorities, each piece titled. Int. André Hajdu (1932– ) Israel, born Hungary Journal from Sidi-Bou-Said (IMI 204) 10pp. 4 min. Composed in 1960 during “an intense and malevolent moment of my life” (from note in score). Short, fragmentary, strong and intense writing, complex rhythms, harmonics, pointillistic. M-D. Two Prayer Songs 1974–75 (IMI 423) 5pp. Andantino: based on a Hassidic song, “From Egypt Didst Thou Deliver Us,” in d, 30 bars long. Andante: set to a hymn tune sung at the New Moon; moves along relentlessly in e; incessant theme. Int. Two Hassidic Tunes 1975 (IMI 424) 4pp. 42 min. Tune of Yohanan the Cobbler: lyric, rhythmic mid-section. Ve’hee She’amada: sonorous, glissando. Colorful mid-Eastern ®avor. Int. A. HAJDU 367 Mihály Hajdu (1909– ) Hungary Hajdu is one of...