Recital Programs

Upon request

Beauty of the Renaissance
Monteverdi
Orfeo toccata*
Liszt
Sposalizio – after Raphael‘s painting Marriage of the Virgin Mary
Byrd
The Irishe marche
The bagpipe and the drone –
The flute and the droome
The marche to the fighte – The retreat
The burgning of the dead
Gesualdo fragment
Palestrina
Ricercar del primo tuono
Monteverdi
Orfeo Ritornell – Toccata*
Wagner
Traurige Weise from Tristan and Isolde *
Liszt
Sonata B minor S 178

*Arrangements by M. Stadtfeld

Orpheus and Titan – Chopin and Liszt
J. S. Bach
French Suite No. 5 G major BWV 816
Chopin
Sonata B-flat minor op. 35
Martin Stadtfeld
Fantasy about the choral Ach, bleib mit Deiner Gnade
Liszt
Sonata B minor

Baroque Colours
Released by Sony Classical (2023)
J. S. Bach
French Overture B-flat minor BWV 831
Italian Concerto f major BWV 971
Praeludium E-flat major from The Well-Tempered Clavier II BWV 876
Kuhnau Piano Improvisation
on Praeludium from Partie V in G major by J. Kuhnau*
Handel
Dank sei Dir, Herr (forgery by Siegfried Ochs)*
Gaspar Sanz
Canarios for guitar*
Handel Sarabande Piano Meditation
on Sarabande from Suite D minor HWV 437 by G.F. Handel*
Vivaldi Four Seasons Summer Variation
After Violin Concerto G minor Summer RV 315: III: Presto from Le quattro Stagioni by A. Vivaldi*
Vivaldi Four Seasons Winter Variation
After Violin Concerto F minor Winter RV 297: III. Allegro-Lento from Le quattro Stagioni by A. Vivaldi*
J.-N.-P. Royer
IV. Tambourin – Suite des Matelots
Bach Fugue Piano Meditation
on Fugue in G minor BWV 578 by J.S. Bach
Bach Air Piano Mediation
on Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3 D Major BWV 1068 by J.S. Bach*
Rameau
VIII. Tambourin from Suite E minor
Galuppi
Allegro moderato from Sonata No. 3 C Minor
Piano Improvisation
Ach bleib mit Deiner Gnade on the choral by M. Vulpius*
J. S. Bach Fugue E-flat major from The Well-Tempered Clavier II BWV 876

*all arrangement and improvisations by Martin Stadtfeld

Bach total:
J. S. Bach
English suite No. 3 G minor BWV 808
     Reflection on “Minuet D minor”*
   Reflection on “Minuet G minor”*
   Reflection on “Air”*
     Reflection on “Organ fugue G minor”*
Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565*
Prelude and Fuge in E-flat major from the “Well-Tempered Clavier II“ BWV 876
French style overture B minor BWV 831
Italian concerto F major BWV 971
*arrangements by Martin Stadtfeld

Volkslieder
J. S. Bach
English Suite No. 3 G minor BWV 808
Arr. Stadtfeld
Kein schöner Land
Ännchen von Tharau
Guter Mond
Auf auf zum fröhlichen Jagen
Aber heidschi bumbeidschi
Kein Feuer keine Kohle
Weißt du wieviel Sternlein stehen
Es klappert die Mühle
Es waren zwei Königskinder
In einem kühlen Grunde
Es es es und es (with a melody by Beethoven)
Freiheit die ich meine
Geh aus mein Herz
Der Mai ist gekommen (with a melody by Mozart)
Muss i denn
Das Lieben bringt groß Freud
Im Märzen der Bauer
An der Saale hellem Strande
Beethoven
Sonata op. 53 Waldstein

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Handel-Brahms:
Frank Siebert writes in Fono Forum about Stadtfeld’s CD with Handel arias arranged for piano:
“Stadtfeld […] plunges into the 19th century, the golden era of the piano, when the great pianists were also important composers and arrangers of works from the past. As a composer, Stadtfeld continues in the tradition of Liszt, Friedman, Godowsky or Rachmaninov […] The respectful and loving way in which Stadtfeld has arranged the music, illuminating the beauty of the arias through his own harmonious and rhythmic coloring, or enriching them with idioms of other composers like Beethoven or Brahms, lets the individual numbers grow together into one great whole.”
February 2020, Frank Siebert, Fono Forum

Handel
Chaconne G major HWV 435
Piangero la sorte mia (from Giulio Cesare HWV 17)
Ombra mai fu (from Serse HWV 40)
Suite No. 5 E major HWV 430
Sarabande variations (on the sarabande from Suite D minor HWV 437)
Will the sun forget to streak (from Solomon HWV 67)

All arrangements by Martin Stadtfeld

Brahms
Variations und fugue on a theme by Handel op. 24