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2021-07-20 09:43:01
Music in the Round announces new concert series in Sheffield with Ensemble 360 and guests
[…] by Bach’s comment that the Well-Tempered Clavier was written “for the benefit and use of the musical youth eager to learn, as well as for the special pastime of those already skilful in this study”. The four charities are: Help Musicians, Youth Music, Future Talent and Live Music Now. More details at the Bach 48 Project website. Further ahead, Music in the Round's concert series includes Beethoven’s string quartets performed by Ensemble 360, and the Leonore Piano Trio starting their new cycle of concerts focusing on Romantic piano trios. In November, baritone Roderick Williams performs songs based on Thomas Hardy poems, and guitarist Craig Ogden teams up with classical accordionist Miloš Milivojević. Other performers include pianist Tim Horton in preludes by Chopin and Debussy, jazz pianist Julian Joseph, and Ensemble 360 returns with Bartók’s First Violin Sonata and Ligeti’s Horn Trio. Full details from Music in the Round's website.
2021-07-05 11:14:31
Norwich-based music writer, Tony Cooper, reports on the North Norfolk Music Festival
[…] British baritone, James Atkinson, accompanied by Simon Lepper, will perform a programme of works by Schubert, Brahms and Finzi. And returning to the festival for his eighth consecutive visit Melvyn Tan will take centre stage (6pm) performing Debussy, Ravel and Chopin.The weekend turns to the voice on Saturday 14th (2pm) when Italian bass, Andrea Mastroni, teams up with Iain Burnside to sing Schubert’s great song-cycle Winterreise (Winter Journey) while later the same day (6pm) the Leonore Piano Trio will be heard playing Beethoven piano trios including the famous Archduke, so called because it was dedicated to Archduke Rudolph of Austria, the youngest of 12 children of Leopold II, the Holy Roman Emperor.The Leonore Trio stays on for a further concert on Sunday 15th (3pm) opening with one of Haydn’s most outstanding and original works, Piano Trio in C, Hob: XV:27, followed by the highly-romantic piano trio by American composer, Amy […]
2020-01-30 19:03:36
Henry Charles Litolff (1818-1891) was celebrated as a first-rate pianist boasting a solid pedigree: he studied with Mendelssohn’s mentor Ignaz Moscheles, taught Hans von Bulow, and won Franz Liszt’s praise. Litolff also composed prolifically in many genres, although he survives primarily through one work, the Scherzo movement from his Fourth Concerto Symphonique Op. 102 for […]
2019-07-16 16:07:29
OUT NOW | Leonore Piano Trio’s New CD: ‘Parry Piano Trios & Partita’ [LISTEN]
Hyperion Records has announced the release of the British-based Leonore Piano Trio‘s new album: Parry Piano Trios & Partita. The disc features British composer Sir Hubert Parry’s (1848-1918) Piano Trio No. 1 In E Minor, Piano Trio No. 3 In G Major – and Partita In D Minor for Violin & Piano. “We are always […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..