Event
Holiday Traditions
Artist: Jeffrey Biegel
Virtuosic performer, Jeffrey Biegel, returns to the Series for the holiday season. In 1985, Leonard Bernstein said of the pianist: “He is a splendid musician and a brilliant performer.” Those comments together with numerous first place competition prizes helped launch a prolific and varied career as a soloist, composer, arranger and chamber musician. Earlier this year, Mr. Biegel was soloist for Kenneth Fuchs’s Grammy award winning “Piano Concerto: ‘Spiritualist'” with the London Symphony Orchestra..
Chosen as the first pianist to record for the Steinway & Sons label, his performance will feature Bach, Mozart and Chopin along with selections from his CD, “A Steinway Christmas” which reached No. 1 on the Classical Billboard charts.
Program:
Bach: Toccata in d minor
Mozart: Sonata In B-flat Major, K. 333
Chopin: Waltz In c-sharp minor, Opus 64, no. 2
Chopin: Polonaise in A-flat Major, Opus 53
Percy Grainger: Sussex Mummers Christmas Carol
Traditional , arr. Carolyne Taylor: Ding Dong, Merrily on High (to Bach’s ‘Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring’)
Traditional, arr. Carolyne Taylor: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (to Chopin’s ‘Revolutionary’ Etude In c minor)
Franz Gruber, arr. Carolyne Taylor: Silent Night (to Debussy’s ‘’Clair de Lune’)
Mel Torme, arr. Biegel: The Christmas Song (“Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire”)
Ann Hampton Callaway, arr. Biegel: Christmas Lullaby
David Foster, arr. Biegel: Grown Up Christmas List
Traditional, arr. Biegel: Auld Lang Syne