Suggestions for Piano Recitals for the 2012/13 season:

Programme 1
Joseph Haydn: Sonata in C major Hob. XVI:50
Béla Bartók: Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs op. 20
Claude Debussy: Suite "Pour le piano"
---Interval ---
Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita no. 5 in G major
Maurice Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin


Programme 2
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Fantasie in D minor K397
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata in A minor K 310
Robert Schumann: Sonata in F sharp minor op. 11
--- Interval---
Friedrich Kalkbrenner: Fantasie in G major
Franz Schubert: Impromptus op. 90


Programme 3
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in C minor op. 13 "Pathétique"
Sonata in E flat major op. 31/3
---Interval ---
Sonata in A flat major op. 110
Sonata in C minor op. 111


Further projects

Recitals by Konstanze Eickhorst and Robert Cohen, Violoncello

Claude Debussy: Sonata in D minor for Violoncello and Klavier
Frédéric Chopin: Sonata in G minor for Violoncello and Klavier

---Interval ---

Robert Schumann: Fantasiestücke op. 73 for Violoncello and Piano
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in D major op. 102/2 for Violoncello und Klavier


The British cellist Robert Cohen is considered one of the foremost exponents of his instrument. His career started at the age of twelve when he performed a Boccherini cello concerto in the Royal Festival Hall, and now takes him regularly to the USA, western and eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, New Zealand and Japan as well as Britain, working with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Mauritz Jansons, Neville Marriner, Kurt Masur, Riccardo Muti, Simon Rattle and Roger Norrington.

He was taught by William Pleeth and other famous cellists such as Jacqueline du Pré, André Navarra and Mstislav Rostropovich.

Cohen's passionate and lucid way of understanding, playing and communicating music has come across in numerous books and musical publications. His teaching is a source of fascination for professional musicians and laymen alike, and he still continues to devote himself to master-classes during his concert tours. In addition Robert Cohen is a professor at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, and a guest professor at London's Royal Academy of Music.

In 1989 Cohen founded the Charleston Manor Festival, a unique and intimate chamber music festival in Sussex, southern England.


Recitals with readings

Programme 1

Peter Härtling reads from his novel "Geliebte Fenchel", published in 2011; Konstanze Eickhorst performs works by Fanny Mendelssohn (and others).


Programme 2

"Fanny and Charles - A Liaison in Rome" is a virtuoso musical and literary event based on the inspirational encounter between Fanny Mendelssohn and Charles Gounod at the Villa Medici in Rome in 1840.

The programme includes Bach's "Italian Concerto", Beethoven's "Appassionata" Sonata, and piano pieces by Felix und Fanny Mendelssohn. There will also be readings from Fanny Mendelssohn's letters and diary entries.

With Johanna Gastdorf, reader, and Konstanze Eickhorst, piano

"Two strong women on the stage. The tone is set in the truest sense by the technically brilliant Konstanze Eickhorst, exploring the depths of the musical poetry with great empathy, but the spoken word asserts itself too, thanks to Johanna Gastdorf's sensitive and understated readings."
(Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, 30 April 2010)

Details of Konstanze Eickhorst's orchestral repertoire may be obtained from Aniela Baumann, concert agent (see contact).