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2024-04-02 06:39:00
Celebrating 20 years of music in the unique and intimate venues of Fife’s East Neuk
[…] five-day feast of live music, from 26-30 June, ranging from classical to jazz, experimental, traditional and contemporaryThis year's festival has a Czech flavour to some events, welcoming the Pavel Haas Quartet (in its UK debut) and Belfiato Wind Quintet playing five generations of Czech masters including Haas, Janáček, Suk, Reicha and Smetana. But there is also Japanese pianist Hisako Kawamura playing Akio Yashiro’s Sonata for Piano, Scandinavian quartet Opus 13 in Andrea Tarrodi and Grieg. Other visitors include pianist Boris Giltburg, bassist Renaud Garcia Fons with his alternative ‘string quartet’ featuring Qanun player Serkan Halili, flamenco guitarist Kiko Ruiz and kemenche player Derya Turkan, harpists, Catrin Finch, Esther Swift and Margret Köll, Irish fiddler Aoife Ni Bhriain, recorder player Stefan Temmingh, and clarinettist Julian Bliss and his septet.The festival is collaborating with the Scottish Fisheries Museum to celebrate and explore the history of the Zulu fishing boats that were once ubiquitous on Scotland’s coasts. Harpist/composer Esther Swift will […]
2024-02-06 16:51:19
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2023-10-28 07:22:00
Exploring his musical roots: conductor Duncan Ward chats about his jazz-inspired, Eastern European & French music coming up with the London Symphony Orchestra
[…] Neumann, creating a very, very different sound world. The musicians had to be extraordinarily dedicated; the performance was risky, for instance, the period woodwind instruments are more precarious. The performance was perhaps not at the same level of TV broadcast perfection, but that is not what you do it for, what is important is the distinctive sound-world. He has also worked with Les Siècles, recently recording a disc of French film music with them with Renaud Capucon.Whilst the LSO is not a period ensemble, it is not of the most flexible that there are, and he feels super lucky to work with them and he first conducted them at the age of 20 in a masterclass. Since then he has done a range of concerts including streamed ones, smaller programmes, string ensembles at LSO St Luke's, and Stockhausen's Gruppen in the Tate Turbine Hall.Coming up he has Britten's A Midsummer […]
2023-10-07 11:00:09
From Chopin to Peter Pan, organist Anna Lapwood’s debut album spreads its net wide. And the French violinist expertly captures Mozart’s spontaneity•
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