A Postgraduate Research Lecture-Recital

This lecture-recital, with pianist and postgraduate research scholar Richard Mecarsel, is an invitation to delve into spiritual, philosophical and sonic pilgrimages with music for solo piano by Janáček, Liszt, Wagner, and El-Khoury.

Event programme

Bechara El-Khoury (b. 1957): Paris, Mélodie d'automne op. 69
Leoš Janáček (1854-1928): On an overgrown Path, Book I

'Our Evenings'
'A Blown-Away Leaf'
'Come With Us!'
'The Madonna of Frydek'
'They Chattered Like Swallows'
'Words Fail!'
'Good Night!'
'Unutterable Anguish'
'In Tears'
'The Barn Owl Has Not Flown Away!'

Franz Liszt (1811-1886): 'Petrarch Sonnet n. 104' from Années de Pélerinage II (Italie), S161.
Franz Liszt / Richard Wagner: 'Isoldens Liebestod – Schlußszene aus Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde' (Isolde's Liebestod, final scene from Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde), S447.

Event performer

Richard Mecarsel (Moukarzel) is a Lebanese-French pianist, musicologist, and aspiring scholar born in 1994. Graduated in piano performance (specialising in music theory and analysis) at the National Lebanese Conservatory), his interests range from musical theory to literature, critical theory, neo-Riemannian analysis, semiotics, philosophy and aesthetics.

Pianist Richard Mecarsel