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New artistic directors Rosalind Ventris & Joseph Fort announce programme for their first Cowbridge Music Festival
Seckou Keita and Catrin Finch (Photo Andy Morgan) In April this year it was announced that husband and wife team, Rosalind Ventris and Joseph Fort were the new directors of the Cowbridge Music Festival, based at the Welsh town of Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan. And now their first festival programme has been announced. Running from 1 to 16 October 2021, the festival features nine concerts with each evening event being repeated. The festival is opened by the Feinstein Ensemble in a programme of Baroque concertos, and the closing event is jazz from the Clare Teal Trio. In between Welsh harpist Catrin Finch joins forces with Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita, mezzo-soprano Marta Fontanals-Simmons and pianist Christopher Glynn are joined by violist and festival artistic director Rosalind Ventris for music by Brahms and Clara Schumann, Franco-Belgian cellist makes her Welsh debut alongside regular duo partner, pianist Julien Brocal in music by […]
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2020-05-02 05:51:14
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2018-09-04 09:00:00
‘Here we have a pianist of exceptional talents’ This week’s free download is the second movement of Ravel’s Sonatine, the ‘Mouvement de Menuet’. In the July issue of BBC Music Magazine, the album it appears on was given four stars for performance, and five stars for the recording. Ravel wrote the piece for a magazine competition, following the brief in composing a piano sonatina no longer than 75 bars. DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS: If you'd like to enjoy our free weekly download simply log in or sign up to our website. Once you've done that, return to […]
2017-02-23 13:19:26
'Julien Brocal brings out the modernity of Chopin's thinking' Chopin 24 Preludes, Op. 28; Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 35 (Marche funèbre) Julien Brocal (piano) ...
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