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2022-02-15 09:18:45
Temple Music's Spring 2022 season is something of an end of an era, as it is the last to be programmed by the long standing director Carol Butler who has just retired. Her successor, Roland Deller, took over last month and he will be responsible for programming the Autumn 2022 season. Spring 2022 features nine concerts in Temple Church and Middle Temple Hall, mixing chamber music, choral music and song. The season opens with a recital from pianist Imogen Cooper, followed by a recital from the Busch Trio. Song features strongly, bass-baritone Brindley Sherratt will be giving a rare recital with pianist Julius Drake, and Drake returns for two further recitals, partnering Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek, and two award-winning young singers, mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska and baritone Konstantine Krimmel. Choral music features with concerts from the Temple Church Choir, including a performance of Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, Collegium Musicum of London in Mozart's […]
2019-01-30 09:18:06
Clara Schumann festival at St John's Smith Square
[…] Brahms (the work is dedicated to her).Robert's wedding gift to Clara was the song cycle Myrthen, and there will be a chance to hear songs from that cycle alongside the songs from the cycle which Robert and Clara wrote jointly, Clara's Variations on a theme by Robert Op. 20 and Robert's Fantasy in C Op. 17 performed by soprano Marie Lawson, baritone James Newby, with Eugene Asti, Mishka Momen Rushdie and Gamal Khamis. The Busch Trio (Mathieu van Bellem, Ori Epstein, Omri Epstein) will be performing Clara's masterpiece, the Piano Trio in G minor.Other relationships explored include the friendship with Mendelssohn, and Clara's long friendship and musical partnership with the violinist Joachim. The festival ends with Brahms' Vier ernste Gesänge Op. 121 performed by Stephan Loges (baritone) and Eugene Asti, songs which Brahms wrote as a testament to his long friendship with Clara.Full details from the St John's Smith […]
2019-01-17 17:56:00
Clara Schumann 200th Anniversary Festival, St John's Smith Square
[…] in Leipzig.Mhairi Lawson (soprano) joins Asti, Momen and Khamis. The final concert begins with two pieces as a memento of Clara's friendship with the violinist Joseph Joachim: firstly, Clara’s own 3Romances, one of her more frequently performed works nowadays; and secondly, the F-A-E Sonata which the composers dedicated to Joseph. This piece was first played through at a friendly get together by Clara and Joseph at Clara’s home. Both works will be performed by members of the Busch Trio. The Clara Schumann Festival ends with Brahms’ Vier ernste Gesänge, written towards the end of his life. The songs were first played to a group of close friends at a private gathering immediately after Clara’s funeral. After the cycle was published, Brahms sent a copy to Clara’s daughter Marie Schumann. Accompanying the score was a letter in which Brahms wrote: “…You will not be able to play through these songs just now because the words would be too affecting. […]
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2016-11-20 10:20:30
Live to teach, teach to live
[…] driver at the airport – luggage carried and doors opened – and dropped at my 4 star hotel. Later in the day I arrive at Chapelle, greeted by the artistic staff and executive director. Our coaching sessions are in state-of-the-art concert spaces, and last for 4 hours per group, all in one chunk – a challenge for all of us for concentration and musical commitment. This time, I had the opportunity to work with the Busch Trio – 8 hours on the Beethoven Triple, which they are preparing for concerts beginning in one month (including Warsaw Symphony with American conductor Karina Canellakis). This young trio, made up of Israeli brothers on piano and cello, and a Dutch violinist, plays with passion, intelligence, and sweep. The luxury of 8 hours on one work allows us to dig deep – not only about the music, but also about inter-personal relationships, career advice, […]