Frederick Septimus Kelly News
Australian and British musician and composer and rower (1881-1916)
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- composer, rower
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2019-05-12 10:58:00
The Ghosts of War
[…] Hall, with the conductors Marios Papadopoulos and Hannah Schneider (who will do the Kelly) and the stunning Russian violinist Alena Baeva as soloist in the Schumann. I do hope you can join us! Booking here.Here's some more about the concert and the personalities behind the pieces, to help whet the appetite... THE GHOSTS OF WAR Jelly d'Arányi in the 1920s. Portrait by Charles Geoffroy-Dechaume From the death of composer Frederick Septimus Kelly in the Battle of the Somme, through the bizarre rediscovery of Schumann’s long-suppressed Violin Concerto on the eve of World War II to music that Bela Bartók composed in exile in 1940, this concert traces the inter-war years through the extraordinary figure of the great Hungarian violinist Jelly d’Arányi (the heroine of my novel Ghost Variations, which inspired the programme). One of the most significant musicians of her day, muse to such composers […]
2019-03-03 13:10:00
FS Kelly: a lost genius?
Frederick Septimus Kelly When I was working on Ghost Variations, one of the most rewarding - and moving - discoveries was the music of Frederick Septimus Kelly (1881-1916): Australian composer, pupil of Donald Francis Tovey, Olympic rowing gold medallist of 1908. He was tragically killed in the Battle of the Somme, having survived the horrors of Gallipoli. Jelly d'Arányi, our violinist heroine, was in love with him and kept his picture on her piano for the rest of her life. There's not much evidence that he returned her feelings, beyond the enjoyment of making music together - but nevertheless, he wrote her a substantial violin sonata on his way back from Gallipoli, which was unearthed and recorded for the first time by Australian violinist Chris Latham less than a decade ago. (You can hear Kelly's most famous work, the beautiful Elegy in Memoriam Rupert Brooke, in The Ghosts of […]
2018-11-06 05:55:00
Stanford Mass Via Victrix premiere, Partington, BBC NOW.
[…] years after 1918, and the time has come for a Mass Via Victrix, as long as you are on the right side. As music, Stanford's Mass Via Victrix is rousing stuff, easy to march along with, and should prove popular, triumphalist or not, though one should caution against calling it a major masterpiece. Cerytainly, a performance executed with gusto, from Partington, BBC NOW and soloists Kiandra Howarth, Jess Dandy, Ruairi Bowen and Gareth Brynmor John. Frederick Septimus Kelly's Elegy for Strings, In Memoriam Rupert Brooke provided an interesting counterpoint : achingly poignant and sincere, the smaller ensemble and tight orchestration allowing intimacy. Although Maurice Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin may have been included in this programme to extend the war memorial aspect to France, the piece is more than a set oif portrits of departed friends. It is every bit as much a homage to French style, and to the vigour […]
2015-11-08 15:42:32
Looking for music for Remembrance Sunday - and especially music by Frederick Septimus Kelly - I was blown away by this short film from violinist Guillaume Sutre and pianist Steven Vanhauwaert. It concerns the CD of music from the World War I era that they have recently recorded for Editions Hortus - the first volume of Hortus's WWI series.
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