The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY), one of New York’s leading cultural venues, presents Richard Goode, piano: Fancies and Goodnights on Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 7:30pm ET on the David Geffen Stage at Kaufmann Concert Hall and online. Tickets start at $40 for in person and $25 for online streaming and are available at https://www.92ny.org/event/richard-goode. Online streaming is available 72 hours following the performance.

“As a curious traveler will collect objects that catch his eye, these short pieces are among the many that have caught my ear with their beauty, strangeness, and unpredictability. I have borrowed the title Fancies and Goodnights from a book of bewitching tales by the English writer John Collier.” -Richard Goode

A true giant of the piano and longtime 92NY friend, Richard Goode returns to our stage with a deeply personal program of piano miniatures, culminating in a performance of Schubert’s immortal B-flat Major Sonata, D. 960. Goode’s 1987 recording of the sonata remains a benchmark, and he brings a lifetime spent with the work to this performance of it, his first in New York City in over a decade. Don’t miss one of the great piano events of the season, and what promises to be a transcendent performance by an artist in his element.

Program:
HAYDN Sonata in B Minor, Hob. XVI:32
HAYDN Sonata in D Major, Hob. XVI:24
GESUALDO O Vos Omnes from Sacrae Cantiones for Five Voices, Book 1
BYRD Selections from My Ladye Nevells Booke

RAMEAU Le rappel des oiseaux
RAMEAU L’indiscrète
GLUCK Melody from Orfeo and Eurydice (trans. G. Sgambati)
BIZET Adagietto from L’Arlesienne (trans. by L. Godowsky)
PADEREWSKI Legende, Op. 16, No. 1
SCHUBERT Ungarische Melodie, D. 817
JANÁČEK Dobrou Noc! (Good Night!) from On an Overgrown Path
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SCHUBERT Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960