International star pianist and Cornell Center for Historical KeyboardsArtist-in-Residence Alexander Melnikov brings his extraordinary expertise on both modern and historic pianos to Cornell for a week-long residency. This first recital of two, performed on a copy of a late 18^th-century Viennese fortepiano, focuses on the brilliant London pianist Muzio Clementi and his contemporaries Haydn and Mozart, interleaving sonatas by the two older composers with his own musical homages to them, and concluding with Clementi’s stunning Sonata Op. 34, No. 2.