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2021-12-01 08:42:58
Brahms and the Great Romantics
Pianist Warren Mailley-Smith's Piccadilly Chamber Concert Series will be returning to St James' Church, Piccadilly for its fourth series in 2022. The new series, Brahms and the Great Romantics, will be exploring aspects of Brahms' chamber music alongside other works that influenced him, and there will be performances of Brahms' Piano Trio No. 1, Clarinet Trio and Piano Quartet in G minor, along with the composer's solo piano music plus trios by Beethoven, Coleridge-Taylor, Chopin, Bridge, Mendelssohn, and Rota, Schubert's The Shepherd on the Rock, Schumann's Piano Quartet, Farrenc's Piano Quintet and Schubert's Trout Quintet. The opening concert on 28 January 2022, features Mailley-Smith with Victoria Sayles (violin) and Victoria Simonsen (cello) in Beethoven's Piano Trio Op 1 No.1 in E flat Major, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Piano Trio in E Minor and Brahms' Piano Trio No. 1 op 8 in B major. Subsequent concerts in the series follow on Fridays in February, March, May, and July 2022. Full […]
2021-06-18 07:11:41
Chopin, daguerreotype by Bisson, c. 1849 Pianist Warren Mailley-Smith was an early adopter of the live-streaming format with his recitals from the 1901 Arts Club and on 25 June 2021 Mailley-Smith returns to the venue for a pair of recitals featuring the music of Frédéric Chopin. The music of the Polish composer is dear to Mailley-Smith's heart and in 2016 he became the first British pianist to perform from memory the complete solo piano works of Chopin (233 pieces). On Friday 25 June, Mailley-Smith will be performing a programme of Chopin's solo piano music including three of the nocturnes and the Twelve Études op.10. As a performer, Chopin is known to have had quite an intimate performance technique and he eschewed the large-scale showy concert formats developed by Liszt, and Chopin said to his pupil Emilie von Gretsch that "concerts are never real music, you have to give up […]
2020-07-14 09:54:42
Piccadilly Sinfonietta returns to St James's Piccadilly for its second live-streamed concert
Having recently giving its first live-streamed concert from St James's Piccadilly, the Piccadilly Sinfonietta is returning to the church on Saturday 18 July 2020 to give the ensemble's second live-streamed concert. Violinist Martyn Jackson, the leader of the Allegri String Quartet, will be leading the ensemble and will take the violin solos in Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, and the ensemble will be joined by pianist Warren Mailley-Smith (artistic director of the ensemble) for Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major. The Piccadilly Sinfonietta's first live-streamed concert from St James's had over 75, 0000 views. Saturday's concert will be from 7.30pm on Facebook [ici All proceeds support the musicians and St James's Church.
2020-06-11 07:41:54
Going it alone: pianist Warren Mailley-Smith presents live-streamed Chopin
Warren Mailley-Smith The restrictions of social distancing, and the uncertainty facing live theatre and concert performance mean that performers are looking at alternative models for presenting music. Oxford Lieder Festival recently announced that is 2020 season in October will be entirely live-streamed [see my article], Grange Park Opera has been presenting its Found Festival in an empty theatre [see my article], and the Wigmore Hall and tBBC Radio 3 have been collaborating on the lunchtime series at Wigmore Hall. Tonight the pianist Warren Mailley-Smith will be presenting his own live, lockdown concert at the 1901 Arts Club (11 June 2020, 7.30pm). Not only is Mailley Smith performing without an audience and live-streaming the event, but every aspect of the performance, technical set up, marketing and programming is achieved by the performer alone. Mailley-Smith will be performing an all-Chopin programme including Ballade no.1 in G […]