Dvorák and Brahms at Wilton’s Music Hall Friday 31st July 730 pm Pre-concert Talk-7 pm Johannes Brahms-B Flat Major Quartet Op 67 (1875) Antonin Dvorák-G major Quintet Op 77 (Original Version-1875) Plus: David Blake-Fantasy Kreutzer Quartet (PSS, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan Goff, Neil Heyde) Guest Artist-Rachel Meerloo (Double Bass) On Friday 31st July, the Kreutzers bring […]
July 9, 2010
Rough notes on Fauré and the violin. Pre concert talk given 27th June 2010 Gabriel Fauré’s piano writing might be said to begin with Chopin’s triumphant visits to Paris; there he played chamber music with Pierre Baillot, concertos under Francois Habeneck, sonatas with Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, whilst Delacroix sketched; Paris was littered with pianists as […]
July 8, 2010
…the passage of time leaves no trace on all the essential things in Dr. Joachim’s playing, nor is there any change in the extraordinary perfection of ensemble with which his colleagues reproduce every tinge of his moods. All his many long years of intimate love of the great music have resulted now in a […]
July 6, 2010
July 1, 2010
In 2002 – I was preparing to direct a concert with the wonderful Zagreb Soloists in the Lisinki Concert Hall, Zagreb. I had been discussing this with George Rochberg, and he suggested that I arrange the slow movement of his 6th Quartet , which itself is a transfiguration of Pachelbel Adagio. Here is the result, […]
July 26, 2010