Colin Decio Pianist
"Colin Decio’s playing sounded immediately authoritative...."
" ..intelligently and musically played ..." "...a splendid performance..."
Piano & Poetry Recitals
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Solo piano repertoire
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William Byrd (1543 - 1623)
The Battell (Elizabethan Virginal Music) J.F.Dandrieu (1682 - 1738) Les Fifres La Gemissante Rameau (1683 - 1764) Tambourin JS Bach (1685 - 1750) Preludes: BWV 846, 847, 848, 926, 927, 935, 936, 999 Gavotte BWV 816 Two-Part Inventions: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14 Three-part Inventions: 5,11 Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Handel (1685 - 1759) Sarabande HWV 437 Air "The Harmonius Blacksmith" HWV 430 Chaconne in G major HWV 435 D. Scarlatti (1685 - 1757) Sonatas: selection Liszt (1811 - 1886)
Mephisto Waltz no. 1 Piano Sonata in Bm Etude no.3 - Un sospiro Grand Etudes de Paganini no.3 - La Campanella In dulci jubilo S186 Brahms (1833 - 1897) Intermezzi Op 117 Rhapsody Op79 No.2 Grieg (1843 - 1907) Wedding Day at Troldhaugen Lyric Pieces Notturno Heimwe Solveig's Song Sinding (1856 - 1941) Rustle of Spring Gershwin (1898 - 1937)
Three Preludes Poulenc (1899 - 1963) Trois Novelettes Mouvements Perpetuelles Toccata Nocturnes Khatchaturian (1903 - 1978) Toccata Waltz (from Masquerade) Shostakovich (1906 - 1975) Piano Sonata No.2 Three Fantastic Dances Preludes Op34 Preludes Op87 - selection Polka |
Daquin (1694 - 1772)
Le Coucou CPE Bach (1714 - 1788) Solfegietto Variationen "Ich schlief, da traumte mir" Haydn (1732 - 1809) Sonatas: selection Ochsen-menuett La Roxolane Mozart (1756 - 1791) Rondo alla Turca KV 331 Fantasie in Dm KV 397 Rondo KV 485 Sonata in C major K545 Beethoven (1770 - 1827) 6 Ecossaisen Fur Elise 'Moonlight' Sonata Sonata in Dm (Tempest) Sonata in G major Debussy (1862 - 1918)
Preludes No.6, No.10 (La Cathedral Engloutie) Children's Corner Suite Nocturne Pour le piano L'isle Joyeuse Reverie Clair de lune (Suite Bergamasque) Satie (1866 - 1925) Gnossiennes 1- 6 Trois Gymnopedie Avant-Dernieres Pensees Scott Joplin (1868 - 1917) The Entertainer Rag Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943) Preludes: Op 3 No.2 Op 32 Nos. 5,10 & 12 Op 23 Nos.1, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 Nocturne in Am Britten (1913 - 1976)
Night (from Holiday Diary) Notturno Bryan Kelly (1934 - ) Oxford Nocturne Decio (1959 - ) own works |
Schubert (1797-1828)
Impromptus D899 Scherzo in Bb D593 Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847) Lied ohne worte (various) Schumann (1810 - 1856) Von fremden Landern und Menschen Op15 no.1 & 7 Traumerie Chopin (1810 - 1849) Waltzes: Op34 no.2, Op64 no.1,2,3, Op69 no.1, 2, Op70 no. 2, KK IVa no. 15, KK IVb no. 11 Mazurkas: Op7 no. 1, 2, 5, Op24 no. 1, Op28 no. 4, 6, 7, 15 Op34 no.2, Op64 no. 2, Op70 no.2 Preludes: Op28 no. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 15, 20, 22, Ab Fantasie Impromptu Op 66 Nocturnes: Op9 no.1, 2, Op15 no.1, 3, Op27 no. 1, Op37 no.1 2, Op48 no. 1, 2, Op55 no.1, Op72 no. 1, C#m BI 49 (posthumous) Polonaises: Op26 no.1,Op40 no.1 & 2,Op71no.1 Etudes: Op25 no. 1, 2, 12, Three Etudes: no. 1, 2 Ballades: Op 23, 38, 47, 52 Holst (1874 - 1934)
Toccata Nocturne Schoenberg (1874 - 1951) 6 little pieces Ravel (1875 - 1937) Sonatine Jeaux d'eau Alborado del gracioso Pavanne pour une infanta defunte Ondine (from Gaspard de la nuit) Bartok (1881 - 1945) Allegro Barbaro Szonatina Prokofiev (1891 - 1953) Peter and the Wolf (with narrator) Piano Sonatas: Nos.1, 6, & 9 Suggestion Diabolique Musiques d'Enfants |
Duo Mellion
Colin also performs as multi-instrumentalist and vocalist alongside his wife, Ingrid Prosser, who is a singer and specialist in music of the medieval period. Together they have created two CDs.
The CD album Sumer is icumen in is a collection of medieval, renaissance, folk and contemporary songs.
The Crowning of Dreaming John and After the Battle are both compositions specially written for this ensemble.
The CD album Sumer is icumen in is a collection of medieval, renaissance, folk and contemporary songs.
The Crowning of Dreaming John and After the Battle are both compositions specially written for this ensemble.