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World Renowned Pianist Richard Goode performs Beethoven – Friday, June 23 at 7:30pm

St. Luke’s Cathedral – 143 State Street, Portland, ME

Sponsored by Eric and Jenny Yao

Richard Goode

“It is virtually impossible to walk away from one of Mr. Goode’s recitals without the sense of having gained some new insight, subtle or otherwise, into the works he played or about pianism itself.”

— The New York Times

Pianist Richard Goode has been hailed for music-making of tremendous emotional power, depth, and ex-pressiveness, and has been acknowledged worldwide as one of today’s leading interpreters of Classical and Ro-mantic music. In regular performances with the major orchestras, recitals in the world’s music capitals, master-classes in person or online, and through his extensive and acclaimed Nonesuch recordings, he has won a large and devoted following.

An exclusive Nonesuch recording artist, Goode has made more than two dozen recordings over the years, rang-ing from solo and chamber works to lieder and concertos. His 10-CD set of the complete Beethoven sonatas cy-cle, the first-ever by an American-born pianist, was nominated for a Grammy and has been ranked among the most distinguished recordings of this repertoire. Other recording highlights include numerous Mozart piano con-certi with Orpheus and the Beethoven piano concerti with Ivan Fischer and Budapest Festival Orchestra.

A native of New York, Richard Goode studied at the Mannes College of Music and the Curtis Institute. His numer-ous prizes over the years include the Young Concert Artists Award, First Prize in the Clara Haskil Competition, the Avery Fisher Prize, and a Grammy award for the Brahms Sonatas recorded with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman.

Mr. Goode served as co-Artistic Director of the renowned Marlboro Music School and Festival in Vermont from 1999 through 2013. In Fall 2021, Mr. Goode joined the Peabody Conservatory as Distinguished Artist Faculty.

Six Bagatelles from Op. 119, nos. 6-11 (1822)

6.   Andante – Allegretto
7.   Allegro, ma non troppo
8.   Moderato cantabile
9.   Vivace moderato
10. Allegramente
11. Andante ma non troppo


Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109 (1820)
Vivace ma non troppo, sempre legato – Adagio espressivo
Prestissimo
Gesangvoll, mit innigster Empfindung. Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo

— Intermission —

33 Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120 (1824)
Theme: Vivace
Variation 1       Alla marcia maestoso
Variation 2       Poco allegro
Variation 3       L’istesso tempo
Variation 4       Un poco più vivace
Variation 5       Allegro vivace
Variation 6       Allegro ma non troppo e serioso
Variation 7       Un poco più allegro
Variation 8       Poco vivace
Variation 9       Allegro pesante e risoluto
Variation 10     Presto
Variation 11     Allegretto
Variation 12     Un poco più moto
Variation 13     Vivace
Variation 14     Grave e maestoso
Variation 15     Presto scherzando
Variation 16     Allegro
Variation 17     Allegro
Variation 18     Poco moderato
Variation 19     Presto
Variation 20     Andante
Variation 21     Allegro con brio – Meno allegro
Variation 22     Allegro molto, alla ‘Notte e giorno faticar’ di Mozart
Variation 23     Allegro assai
Variation 24     Fughetta. Andante
Variation 25     Allegro
Variation 26     Piacevole
Variation 27     Vivace
Variation 28     Allegro
Variation 29     Adagio ma non troppo
Variation 30     Andante, sempre cantabile
Variation 31     Largo, molto espressivo
Variation 32     Fugue. Allegro
Variation 33     Tempo di Minuet moderato

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