Chopin: F minor concerto #2 – 

Maestoso – Larghetto – Allegro vivace

William Aide, piano

CBC Winnipeg Orchestra – Boris Brott, conductor

Concertos in F minor, E flat

This is the hall the pianist built.
These are the pieces by Chopin and Liszt
writ for the hall the pianist built.
Here is the audience soon to be kissed;
these are the pieces by Chopin and Liszt
fit for the hall the pianist built.
Perfume of silence, a hovering mist
over the audience soon to be kissed.
These are the pieces by Chopin and Liszt
played in the hall the pianist built.
Conductor, orchestra paid to assist
enchantment of silence, the radiant myst-
ery plying the audience soon to be kissed
by the wondrous bravura of Chopin and Liszt,
loud in the hall the pianist built.
Banished the ocelot critics who hissed
conductor, orchestra hot to assist
the shimmer of silence, the palpable myst-
ery touching the audience soon to be kissed
by the plangent bel canto of Chopin and Liszt,
alive in the hall the pianist built.
Arthritic thumbs and a frangible wrist
lionized ocelot critics who hissed
conductors, orchestras pledged to assist
the luminous silence, whose promising tryst
pump-primed the audience soon to be kissed
in the lucid acoustic for Chopin and Liszt—
might deaden the hall the pianist built.
Everyone’s waiting, and here is the twist:
fingers arthritic, a petrified wrist,
wild inner critics (who sputtered and hissed
conductors, orchestras poised to insist
that the silence be broken, the gladdening mist
should envelop the crowd who expect be kissed
by exalted concertos of Chopin and Liszt)
must fire-bomb the hall the pianist built.

Liszt Concerto #1 in E flat

William Aide, piano

CBC Winnipeg Orchestra

Eric Wild, conductor

Liszt Concerto #2 in

A major

William Aide, piano

CBC Winnipeg Orchestra

Eric Wild, conductor

Saint-Saens Concerto No. 2

Andante sostenuto – Allegro scherzando – Presto

William Aide, piano

CBC Winnipeg Orchestra

Eric Wild, conductor

Prokofiev Concerto #1

William Aide, piano

CBC Winnipeg Orchestra

Eric Wild, conductor

Khachaturian Concerto

William Aide, piano

CBC Winnipeg Orchestra

Eric Wild, conductor

Beethoven: Concerto #2

William Aide, piano

CBC Winnipeg Orchestra

Eric Wild, conductor

Mendelssohn: Concerto in G minor

William Aide, piano

CBC Winnipeg Orchestra

Eric Wild, conductor

Grieg: Concerto in A minor

William Aide, piano

CBC Winnipeg Orchestra

Eric Wild, conductor

Mozart: Concerto in B flat major

William Aide, piano

Prince George Symphony, Leslie Dala, conductor

Litolff: Scherzo

William Aide, piano

CBC Winnipeg Orchestra

Eric Wild, conductor

Chopin: Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise, Op. 22

William Aide, piano
CBC Winnipeg Orchestra
Eric Wild, conductor

Tchaikovsky: Concerto in Bb minor – Allegro ma non troppo

William Aide, piano
Winnipeg Symphony
Arthur Fiedler, conductor

Mozart: Concerto in Eb major 

Allegro
Andante
Allegro

William Aide, piano
The University of Toronto Chamber Orchestra
David Zafer, conductor