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2022-07-20 13:23:00
21st Birthday: Oxford Lieder Festival comes of age with a celebration of Friendship in Song
[…] Venables commissioned by the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society. There is a lecture recitals on RVW's friend, George Butterworth, and on RVW and women.There will be a recreation of a typical Schubertiade, a quintessential example of music amongst friends, and the middle weekend of the festival is devoted to Schubert, with a lecture by Graham Johnson on Schubert and his friends in 1822, Natasha Loges on Schubert's social music and recitals from Mark Padmore and Till Fellner, Birgid Steinberger and Julius Drake, and Werner Güra and Christoph Berner in Schubert's Ballads. And the weekend ends with the return of Birgid Steinberger, accompanying herself on guitar in a programme of folksongs.A focus in intimate music making brings a series of recitals devoted to lute songs, both ancient and modern, with performances from Helen Charlston and Toby Carr, Benjamin Appl and Thomas Dunford, Iestyn Davies and Thomas Dunford, and Mark Padmore and Elizabeth Kenny. […]
2022-07-06 08:13:02
Beautiful Music in Beautiful Places: The Lammermuir Festival returns with 35 live performances across 16 historic venues in East Lothian
[…] The title role was written for the mezzo-soprano Lucy Arbell who created a number of roles in Massenet's later operas (including Dulcinée in Don Quichotte) and who had a 'close relationship' with the composer. Interestingly Arbell was the grand-daughter of Sir Richard Wallace of Wallace Collection fame.Coffee Concerts at Holy Trinity Church in Haddington feature pianist Malcolm Martineau performing all of Duparc's songs with singers Jennifer Johnston, Joshua Ellicott, Sarah Fox and James Newby, plus performances from pianist Till Fellner, violinist Viviane Hagner, French oboist Armand Djikoloum, and pianist Danny Driver.Pianist Jeremy Denk was artist in residence at the 2021 festival and he returns to perform five programmes with repertoire ranging from Bach's Violin Sonatas with violinist Maria Włozczowska to Ravel and Miss Mazzoli to Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Rory MacDonald. Denk closes the festival with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, conductor Dinis Sousa, in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. […]
2021-03-02 16:54:27
The Concours musical international de Montréal (CMIM) is proud to announce the addition of two new members of the jury for its 19th edition. Pianists Charles Richard-Hamelin (Canada) and Till Fellner (Austria), both laureates of international competitions, will join the other members of the jury announced earlier. On the strength of their international experience, they will [...]
2019-09-05 16:34:00
Bernard Haitink's valedictory 90th Prom, Royal Albert Hall
[…] sleep, but Haitink does not do autopilot.. Tired as he looked, once the music got going, it seemed to invigorate him with renewed energy : the flow of the music like the flow of life through one's veins. (Please read more about that here). In March at the Barbican London, he conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, with which he has been associated for decades, in two concerts - Mozart Piano Concerto no 22 with Till Fellner, and Bruckner Symphony no 4. (Please read my review here) and Dvořák Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53 (B.108),with Isabelle Faust and Gustav Mahler Symphony no 4. (Please read more about that here). This last Prom at the Royal Albert Hall was valedictory - his 90th Proms appearance, probably a record of some kind for a non BBC conductor. Memories of past Haitink Proms flooded back, indelibly etched in the memory. Please scroll […]
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